About ScienceMusings.com
Chet Raymo's weekly Science Musings appeared in the Boston Globe for twenty years. The column offered informed and provocative meditations on science as a creative human activity and celebrated the grandeur and mystery of the natural world.
Now Raymo's essays take to the web at ScienceMusings.com The main page offers a regular continuation of weekly meditations. On the blog, Chet provides a convenient portal to exciting things that are happening in science. Other on-site resources will appeal to visitors who value reliable empirical knowledge of the world, yet retain a sense of reverence and awe for the complexity, beauty, and sometimes terror of nature.
About Chet Raymo
Chet Raymo is Professor Emeritus at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. He is the author of twelve books on science and nature, including Skeptics and True Believers, An Intimate Look At the Night Sky, The Path: A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe, and most recently Walking Zero: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the Prime Meridian. His work has been widely anthologized, including in the Norton Book of Nature Writing and annual editions of Best American Science and 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 three novels: In the Falcon's Claw, Valentine, and The Dork of Cork, which was made into a major film.
Inquiries and suggestions regarding this website can be sent to tom@sciencemusings.com.
