Author: Amy Law
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DRAFT: Insights — Archimedes
This section repeats one of the most famous examples of insight that we have. It is an excellent example of how astonishingly non-linear insights can be! But is it a too much of stretch of you scientific side to understand why Archimedes was successful? Let me know what is confusing, please.
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DRAFT: Insights — How Thinking Outside the Box Works
Insights are bizarre. Have I explained how this process works clearly?
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Riders on the Storm …
As usual, I heard them before I saw them, a “churring” call echoing off the low clouds. There they were, a ragged line high above me — sandhill cranes running before the storm. The High Plains, including the Front Range, are going to get our first major winter storm starting tonight — and it’s shaping…
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DRAFT: Creativity — Thinking In Pictures
I haven’t posted many draft chapters of my graphic novel on dyslexia in the past few months because I was told that if I did, publishers wouldn’t pick it up. Why would they? Publishers are extremely sensitive to reasons not to take the risk of publishing something that won’t sell. If it’s already out there,…
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2023 Pika Patrol, Part II
We went pika patrolling at Halfmoon Creek above Leadville this weekend, and I’m happy to say, I was wrong! Last year I said there would be no more pika at the site until a fire cleared the trees away from the talus. But this year, we saw one pika, and heard several. Not great, but…
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2023 Pika Pilgrimage
My husband and I headed back up to the high country this week to count pika. I’ve been asked if we get bored doing the same site every year. My answer is — it’s not the same site. There’s something new every time. This chipmunk has just jumped up from the rock beneath it to…
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Monarch, bees and a male hummingbird
I stepped out into our front garden this afternoon and was treated to a Monarch butterfly circling a patch of sunflowers, occasionally landing and sticking it’s tongue into the tiny disk flower that actually produce pollen, nectar, and ultimately, sunflower seeds. It seems as if we haven’t had as many bees this summer, which is…
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Dead Things
Trigger Warning — I show photos of a couple of dead animals in this post, as well as talk about depressing things. If you’d rather not read on, I won’t hold it against you. This has been such a weird, extreme summer in so many ways — extreme heat over most of the continent, fires…
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You Otter See the Otters!
Last week, my husband and I took a long-delayed vacation in Monterey, California. The highlight of the trip were the sea otters that live in the kelp beds fifty feet off the beach. Before over hunting decimated them in the 1800s, sea otters ranged from Japan to Baja California, Mexico — 150,000-300,000 of them. But…
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DRAFT Creativity — Pattern Recognition
One of the biggest strengths of neurodivergent people, including dyslexics, is their ability to see patterns where the rest of us see static. But I want everybody to be able to see at least some of the patterns that I present. What do you see?
Amy Law, Science Geek 