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Pop Culture
Speaking of the challenges new technologies pose, as school systems across the country start back up again, students are finally having to reckon with their worst nightmare: leaving their phone behind. I am pretty sure this is a great idea? What do you think?
I mean c’mon! Andor was not only the best Star Wars show ever (maybe) it was also a remarkable drama with extraordinary performances that were really about the sacrifices that come in the wake of resisting a totalitarian regime. So why no Emmy love? The show runner Tony Gilroy has his say.
Fundamental Physics
We know it’s there, we just can’t see it. This mysterious clump of mass may be the first step to a new frontier of our universe: dark matter. If only we had a clue about what Dark Matter was.
It’s good to be able to blame your disappearing will-power on evolution! If you missed out on the gym again this week you might be chalk your aversion to physical exercise to something more human than you realize.
Astrobiology
We’ve known how protoplanetary disks build new planets, but what about the other way around? For the first time, astronomers are seeing how baby planets mold the “soil” they emerged from.
While you should never judge a book by its cover, when that book is tens of hundreds of light-years away, you’ll take what you can get. Luckily for us, the make up of an exoplanets atmosphere increasingly like a truly viable in identifying Earth-like planets.
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