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A senior researcher once told me that careful questions are not a sign that you are behind. They are part of the work. In astronomy, asking how a measurement was made can matter as much as understanding the result. I still think about that when supporting stu...
SKA-Low Will Turn Western Australia Into a Vast Radio Instrument At the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, SKA-Low is being built from 131,072 antennas arranged across 512 stations. It will not look like a conventional dish. The instrument is closer to a...
Rowena Wise’s “Diamond In The Rough” Is About the Cost of Being Exceptional Rowena Wise’s new single, “Diamond In The Rough,” arrives with a title that sounds almost like a compliment. The song is less interested in praise than in the pressure hidden inside i...
What does a spacecraft mission sound like when the data comes first? ESA’s Expedition Sound Episode 2 follows BepiColombo, the ESA/JAXA mission travelling towards Mercury, through the people who turn scientific measurements into sound. I like this framing bec...
Why The Odyssey Trailer Feels Larger Than Its Story The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has arrived, and its most interesting quality is not simply that it looks expensive or mythic. It is the way the film appears to treat scale as a problem...