{"id":2,"date":"2022-11-08T19:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-06-12T20:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T20:16:05","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markpopinchalk.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started science writing with <a href=\"https:\/\/astrobites.org\/author\/mpopinchalk\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/astrobites.org\/author\/mpopinchalk\/\">the <em>Astrobites<\/em><\/a> consortium, and my work has also been included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/mark-popinchalk\/\">in <em>Scientific American<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below you can find some of the articles I&#8217;ve written. I&#8217;m particularly proud of the order of the words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Slime Mold Helps to Map the Universe<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/slime-mold-helps-to-map-the-universes-tendrils-of-dark-matter\/\">Slime Mold Helps to Map the Universe&#8217;s Tendrils of Dark Matter<\/a> for Scientific American<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over billions of years gravity has herded matter into a chaotic netting of filaments, tendrils and barren voids known as the \u201ccosmic web.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The humble slime mold has just mapped the shape of the cosmos better than any previous attempt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arboreal Astronomers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astrobites.org\/2022\/12\/20\/arboreal-astronomers-using-tree-rings-to-probe-solar-activity\/\">Arboreal Astronomers: Using Tree-Rings to Probe Solar Activity<\/a> for Astrobites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The time trees have spent on the planet is thousands of times longer than the earliest human cave paintings, and have always been interacting with the carbon cycle. It\u2019s nice to know that the silent sentinels of our planet witnessed the universe in their own way. <strong>What cosmic glories might they have transcribed within themselves?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Great Planet Bake Off<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astrobites.org\/2022\/10\/21\/the-great-planet-bake-off\/\">The Great Planet Bake Off<\/a> for Astrobites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine every cookie you have ever eaten.&nbsp;Yum. They were each a little different from each other, but some probably were quite similar. Even though you might not have been there when they were made, if you can&nbsp;group similar ones together&nbsp;(sweet ones, crispy ones, buttery ones) you will have more information about how a baker&nbsp;goes about making cookies in general. <strong>That\u2019s what today\u2019s authors did, not with bakers making cookies, but stars making planets!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One Shell of a Mystery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astrobites.org\/2022\/02\/12\/one-shell-of-a-mystery\/\">One Shell of a Mystery <\/a>for Astrobites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I find it so compelling that these stars spin on a timescale approachable to humans.<\/strong> In the time it takes to watch a movie, you could watch as clouds whip across a stellar disk (\u201cI love this part\u201d), or star spots dip behind a disk of debris (\u201cThere it goes, oh here comes another!\u201d). It would be a cosmic light show that once carried the name of a simple shell, an astronomical spectacle that we could enjoy during a human attention span.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started science writing with the Astrobites consortium, and my work has also been included in Scientific American. Below you can find some of the articles I&#8217;ve written. I&#8217;m particularly proud of the order of the words. 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