From Where We Came. Cet article n’est pas disponible.From Where We Came

Art Stewart’s fifth volume of science-based poetry explores the the latest findings on human origins. “Reaching deep into compelling examples from human history, and the history of our natural world, Stewart delivers carefully crafted meditations that seamlessly braid fact, loss, longing, and imagination. “Stewart’s work is an important and intel­ligent contribution to bridging the ever-widening gap between the language of science and that used by everyday people when they explore their own origins… a must-read for those wishing to understand the origins of humankind from another, very human perspective. In From Where We Came, Stewart articulates in a novel and often surprisingly beautiful way what is often difficult for scientific writing, and in fact for scientists themselves, to communicate to the public—the wonder of the search for our origins and the visceral thrill that we as scientists receive as each discovery sheds another ray of light on humankinds origins…” ~ Prof. Lee R. Berger FRSSAf ASSAf “The many anastomosing threads of history form the backbone of Stewart’s fifth volume of science-steeped poetry. Reaching deep into compelling examples from human history, and the history of our natural world, Stewart delivers carefully crafted meditations that seamlessly braid fact, loss, longing, and imagination. As Stewart notes, the reach of modern science is indeed vast, but it is certainly not devoid of wonder. The armchair time-traveller and lab-bench scientist alike will be richly rewarded by even a casual walk through Stewart’s territory, giving yet more evidence of the growing isthmus between C.P. Snow’s two cultures.” ~ Nicholas D. Pyenson Curator, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

Arthur Stewart was born in Michigan City, Indiana, living in what is now the Indiana Dunes National Park. He also spent time in Arizona, studying biology and chemistry at Northern Arizona University. Later, after a stint in the Peace Corps, he earned his PhD in aquatic ecology at Michigan State University. He did postdoctoral research on the toxicity of coal oil and shale oil at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), then taught and learned about stream ecology at the University of Oklahoma, then went back to ORNL as an ecotoxicologist, group leader and senior scientist. To pursue his interests in improving science education, Art earned a MS Ed at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. As a project manager for Oak Ridge Associated Universities, he has worked with several multifaceted science education projects, including the Tennessee Science Bowl, the Appalachian Regional Commission – ORNL Math-Science-Technology Summer Institute, and the Department of Energy‘s ORNL Academies Creating Teacher Scientists program. He now manages the Advanced Short-Term Research Opportunity program for Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Postdoctoral Program for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory. He lives in Lenoir City, not far from the hubbub of Knoxville.