Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.


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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
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Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
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The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
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The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
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America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
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The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
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Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
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Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
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I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from th...
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You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my jo...
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My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little b...
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In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in t...
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I w...
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the ...
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I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di...
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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