I spent four of my years of post-secondary education studying for (and receiving) a bachelors degree in biological sciences. I studied molecular biology, genetics, and a bit of ecology, cellular biology, botany, and entomology blurred into that mix.
I got a job doing computer stuff and never really looked back.
But you don’t spend four intensive years studying the methods and tools of science without it changing how you look at the world. And it definitely changed how I look at the world.
Now I find myself right here… and in this moment: we exist in this highly charged political time, a time when truth and reality are constantly being questioned.
One half of my very soul and identity often seem political and running against the grain of the populist movements that shape our news each day.
I figure I could choose to reject it, go against all that I know and understand, or I can do what I’ve always done and embrace it—use it as the backbone to what I make, how I engage with the other half of my soul and identity: the creative artistic writer guy.
Here I am. Take it or leave it.
Science, rational evidence-based thought, and critical thinking are part of who I am, what I make and how I engage with both sides of my personality.
Under the category of Science & Politics, I’ll be writing more on this topic as the months wear on.
Terms FROm this POSt
- critical thinking
- Often lacking, the idea that notion that ideas and opinions should be grounded in objective truth, verifiable facts and interconnected with logical inferences seems to be a thought that is itself in short supply because we fail to recognize the importance of it or outright dismiss it altogether.
- job
- This is a fuzzy word for me as I write this blog. I am technically self-employed, the overseer of a little one-man Canadian consultancy corporation. Hustling for contracts is hard work tho, so I occasional look for more steady employment gigs that interest me, and allude to it in my writing.
- running
- This is not a running blog, but I took up distance running in 2008 and worked my way up to running marathons, including two of the World Majors: New York and Chicago. These days I just run for fun and the social aspect, but it has shaped and shaded so much of the last two decades of my life that there is bound to be a mention on this blog more than I would let on.
