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Radha Marcum's avatar

Thank you for this essay. It gives me a lot to think about. A poet friend turned me onto your daisy work after I began researching and writing about mutated flora collected near Three Mile Island. My first poetry collection explores my physicist grandfather’s involvement in the Manhattan project and subsequent nuclear technologies. I want to stay in the tension you describe -- acknowledging nuance, resisting a moral stance, contextualizing vs sensationalizing. But audiences don’t always want that complexity. It’s challenging. Anyway, thanks for sharing this reflection. It inspires me.

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💖SparkleSauce💖's avatar

I really enjoyed this! I think there’s a bigger overlap between the pursuit of the arts and the sciences then would seem at first glance. Both can be driven by the same kind of passion for discovery. Like some sciences, like medicine or engineering are practical, but if you’re studying nature or space, that’s more of an inclusive thing, you do it to uncover beauty and interest. Also, I really like your work with the daisies.

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