Shannon Stirone

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Shannon Stirone
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Shannon Stirone is the Managing Editor at Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC. [1] She has been an American science journalist and editor, who writes about space travel and the human connection to space exploration. A native of California, she now lives in New York City. [2]

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Work

Stirone has written for numerous publications, including The Atlantic, [3] Longreads, [4] [5] [6] National Geographic, [7] The New York Times, [8] Popular Science, [9] Rolling Stone, [10] Scientific American, [11] Slate, [12] Wired, [13] and the Washington Post. [14] Her work has also been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing book series, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in 2019, [15] 2020, [16] and 2021. [17]

Stirone often writes about advances in space technology such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [18] and profiles the work of scientists in astronomy and related fields like Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin. [19] Notably, Stirone has been a vocal critic of Elon Musk, his plans to colonize Mars, [20] [21] and the impacts on the night sky due to his Starlink satellites. [14] Stirone has also criticized the billionaire space race. [22]

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References

  1. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". energyinnovation.org. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
  2. ↑ Stirone, Shannon (April 11, 2021). "The line of hope".
  3. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". The Atlantic .
  4. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, Welcome to the Center of the Universe, March 2018". Longreads . 15 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, The Hunt for Planet Nine, January 2019". Longreads . 22 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, An Atlas of the Cosmos, October 2020". Longreads . 27 October 2020.
  7. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". National Geographic . 14 September 2018. Archived from the original on June 13, 2023.
  8. ↑ Stirone, Shannon; Chang, Kenneth; Overbye, Dennis (14 September 2020). "Shannon Stirone, Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds, September 14, 2020". The New York Times .
  9. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Popular Science .
  10. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Rolling Stone .
  11. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Scientific American.
  12. ↑ "Shannon Stirone, Why I'm Mourning the Arecibo Telescope, November 23, 2020". Slate.
  13. ↑ "Shannon Stirone". Wired.
  14. 1 2 "Perspective | Elon Musk's satellites threaten to disrupt the night sky for all of us". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  15. ↑ Montgomery, Sy; Green, Jaime (October 2019). The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019 - Table of Contents on Google Books. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   9781328519009.
  16. ↑ Kaku, Michio; Green, Jaime (3 November 2020). The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020 - Table of Contents on Google Books. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   9780358074298.
  17. ↑ Yong, Ed; Green, Jaime (12 October 2021). The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 - Table of Contents on Google Books. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   9780358400066.
  18. ↑ "Building A Map Of The Universe". Think. 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  19. ↑ Green, Jaime (2021-08-28). "Future Tense Newsletter: A Planet Is More Than a Spot in the Sky". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  20. ↑ DeCiccio, Emily (2021-03-05). "Dangers await humans on Mars as Elon Musk sets his sights on colonization". CNBC. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  21. ↑ "Science author says it's unrealistic to live on Mars". CNBC. 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  22. ↑ BIKHCHANDANI, RAGHAV (July 13, 2021). "Branson made it to space, and Bezos will follow suit. But honestly, no one really cares". The Print. Retrieved January 16, 2022.


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