Roger Lytollis, “PANIC AS MAN BURNS CRUMPETS”: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist (Robinson 2021) David Hepworth, A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives (Penguin, Random House 2019) I can remember the frisson of walking home from the record shop with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon under one arm. There… Continue reading Fabulous Creations – Vanishing Worlds
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
What links this Ethiopian postage stamp, the Trojan War, Thomas the Tank Engine and Pink Floyd?
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