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Laura Poppick


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Laura Poppick is a science and environmental journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Wired, Audubon, National Geographic, Science, and elsewhere. She has been listed as a finalist for the National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Journalism Award and the Maine Literary Awards Short Works Competition in Nonfiction, among others. She lives in Portland, Maine.

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On Land

As a writer, I know and revere the power of words. But I also recognize the limitations of language, how some emotions and experiences lose their essence when pried into a sentence.

Thankfully, here on Earth, we have other ways of expressing ourselves. Where language falls short, music can pick up the slack, transcending the limits of syntax and grammar.

Last fall, I had the chance to explore the i

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Published on March 31, 2026 08:05
Average rating: 4.09 · 474 ratings · 106 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Strata: Stories from Deep Time

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The story of Snowball Earth

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“Nothing is set in stone, because our understanding of the stones keeps changing, as do the stones themselves.”
Laura Poppick, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

“And you think you’re special? You’re not fucking special.” Nobody is, he says. At least not in the scope of geologic”
Laura Poppick, Strata: Stories from Deep Time

“evidence of life on the planet that dates at least as far back as those 3.5-billion-year-old filaments.”
Laura Poppick, Strata: Stories from Deep Time



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