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.