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Essay on Richard Garwin\u00a0<\/a>(whom I interviewed repeatedly and checked in with the rest of his life, because he knew so much and told such good stories. I also wrote his Nature obituary<\/a> and his profile, <\/a>not to mention a review of a movie about him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Sky Baffle Astronomers\u00a0<\/a> (new telescopes, astonishing ones, are streaming the flashes of light that come from everything physics doesn’t forbid)<\/p>\n

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Women Are Creating a New Culture for Astronomy<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0(compared to the previous generations of women astronomers, this latest one is pretty feisty, like, don’t mess with them or with their friends either)<\/p>\n

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Orbital Aggression \u00a0 <\/a>(satellites are hard to defend and easy to shoot down, so maybe we should work harder on treaties)<\/p>\n

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The Great Quake and the Great Drowning<\/a> (people have lived in the Pacific Northwest for 10,000 years, so how did they handle earthquakes?)<\/p>\n

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Inside the Breakthrough Starshot Mission to Alpha Centauri<\/a> (Starshot died from sheer improbability in 2025 but until then, it was engineering imagination at its finest)<\/p>\n

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The Scientist Who Reads Lost History in the Mud<\/a> (profile of paleoecologist Grace Brush who drilled holes in the Chesapeake Bay mud and figured out what the land had done to the water)<\/p>\n

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Higgs and the Certainty of Physicists<\/a><\/p>\n

Beth Willman Really Does Have a Galaxy<\/a><\/p>\n

The Story of Hanny, So Far<\/a>\u00a0>\u00a0\u00a0A Terrifying Incident in Space!<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s the Matter with Gravity?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Great Baltimore Earthquake of July 16, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Why I Like Science<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Last Word on Nothing<\/h2>\n

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Blown-Down Trees on the Dark Side<\/a><\/p>\n

Storia \u00a0<\/a>> Story, History, Story<\/a><\/p>\n

Johnny & Oppy<\/a><\/p>\n

Farm Hall: The Fall into Failure<\/a><\/p>\n

What I’m Not Going to Do<\/a>\u00a0 >\u00a0The Finkbeiner Test<\/a>\u00a0> \u00a0Questions about the FT<\/a>\u00a0>\u00a0Further Thoughts on FT<\/a>\u00a0>\u00a0CJR on FT ><\/a> Nearly Final Thoughts on FT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0The Theorist, the Tundra, and the Forbidden Crystal<\/a><\/p>\n

Uncle Bundy and the Ball Bearing<\/a><\/p>\n

On Boundary Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n

The Springtime of Robins<\/a><\/p>\n

Closed System Sibling Knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Diagnosing Grief<\/a><\/p>\n

An Argument about Crows<\/a><\/p>\n

Outright Gifts<\/a><\/p>\n

Pulling the Primary<\/a><\/p>\n

A Continuing Series: \u00a0Science Metaphors for Life\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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