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New Horizons – Old Harmonies
[Originally written for New Zenith, newsletter of the Vectis Astronomical Society, 3 January 2019] Early on New Year’s Day [2019], the New Horizons spacecraft successfully achieved its long anticipated flyby of Ultima Thule. At about 43 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun, this was the furthest encounter yet with an object in… Continue reading New Horizons – Old Harmonies
Book Review – The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
“… the roots of the problems are not so much in the individuals’ bodies or brains, but in the society in which they live.”