About Science Musings

Sci­ence writer and nat­u­ral­ist Chet Raymo’s week­ly Sci­ence Mus­ings col­umn appeared in the Boston Globe from 1983 to 2003. The col­umn offered informed and provoca­tive med­i­ta­tions on sci­ence as a cre­ative human activ­i­ty and cel­e­brat­ed the grandeur and mys­tery of the nat­ur­al world.

Chet con­tin­ued writ­ing Sci­ence Mus­ings for a glob­al audi­ence on his blog from 2004 until his retire­ment from writ­ing in 2016. In over thir­ty years, both in print and online, he pro­duced over one thou­sand essays and four thou­sand blog posts explor­ing sci­ence and nature.

The new Sci­ence Mus­ings archive has col­lect­ed and pre­sent­ed these week­ly essays, most of which have not been seen in print in over two decades, for a new gen­er­a­tion of readers. 

About Chet Raymo

Chet Ray­mo is Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus at Stone­hill Col­lege in North Eas­t­on, Mass­a­chu­setts. He is the author of four­teen books on sci­ence and nature. His work has been wide­ly anthol­o­gized, includ­ing in the Nor­ton Book of Nature Writ­ing. He is a win­ner of a 1998 Lan­nan Lit­er­ary Award for his non­fic­tion work, and the sub­ject of a bio­graph­i­cal essay in Amer­i­can Nature Writ­ers. Ray­mo has authored sev­er­al nov­els includ­ing The Dork of Cork, which was made into a major film (Frankie Starlight). For twen­ty years he was a sci­ence colum­nist for the Boston Globe.

He is now enjoy­ing his retire­ment on the porch of his New Eng­land home.


About Tom Raymo

Chet’s son, Tom, curates, edits, and man­ages the Sci­ence Mus­ings archive and web­site. An IT Man­ag­er and Sys­tems Admin­is­tra­tor for over twen­ty years, he is also a nature artist and pho­tog­ra­ph­er. He lives on a moun­tain in west­ern Mass­a­chu­setts with his wife and too many cats.


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