• ASTRONOMY

A Grand and Bold Thing

How do you map infinity, and make the result elegant, comprehensible, and useful? Such was the challenge facing astronomer Jim Gunn with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a new map of the universe that enlisted the expertise of hundreds of astronomers and led to revolutionary discoveries. Anyone who has ever marveled at the night sky will enjoy Ann Finkbeiner's lucid and thrilling account of how the heavens spilled their secrets.

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May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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