Just to go back and revisit last weeks articles...
Koeppel
This was definitely a smart choice for my first reading in this class, as it perfectly blended humor and fact. This article definitely reaches a larger audience with it's humor than it would have if it were purely matter of fact method of relaying the information. The voice in this is a sarcastic treat, and i'm reminded of Coyote and Roadrunner, the author sitting upright in the air with a typewriter falling in tandem with the unlucky plummeting reader, and holding up an "oh shit" sign right before you hit the ground. This article gave me a confident outlook on the type of work that is accepted in this unfamiliar genre for me.
Levi
This started out as an exciting visual trip, and then quickly lost me once it got past the imaginative part of the journey. It's not that the subject is boring, but rather the contrast between how fun it is to imagine the journey of this carbon atom, and how not fun it is to be brought back to human form and back to "reality." Additionally, it is fun that every story you could spin about where a carbon atom has been and is going can be literally true, and that these particles will continue their journey long after our species dies. It's comforting to read articles that put us in our place and give us a sliver of a glimpse of how vast the universe might be, and how little we matter. It expands my head to zoom out far enough from unimportant human issues and realize that I do not create, but rather that I am created. Not by controversial religious theories or anything like that, but just to be reminded that i'm a mere coincidental compilation of particles gives me warm fuzzy's inside. It feels good to feel that we don't matter, so we can occasionally stop worrying about stupid human things and just let shit go for those few moments of conceivable infinity.
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