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Covering #science for @undarkmag @SmithsonianMag @QuantaMagazine @DiscoverMag @NautilusMag etc; 3rd book = The Science of Shakespeare. Mostly @ the other place.
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Book Review: The Mind-Boggling Science of Enormous Numbers

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By Dan Falk Verified
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When a child learns all 26 letters of the English alphabet, they’re “done” — but numbers, amazingly, just keep on going. A particularly enthusiastic kid might decide to see just how far they can go: Start from one and keep going into the hundreds, perhaps into the thousands, and — well, eventually they get tired or bored, and the exercise comes to a close. Jeremy Harper, with an eye on the record books, counted out loud to a million in 2007, a task that required 89 days.
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Time Brings Order to the Universe

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By Dan Falk Verified
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If there was an award for the most depressing law of physics, the prize would go to the second law of thermodynamics, hands down. The second law says, roughly, that the amount of disorder in the universe keeps increasing. Stuff breaks down. You and I will break down, and one day the universe itself will run out of steam.
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Book Review: How Evolution Is Driving Us Further Into Space

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By Dan Falk Verified
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Sometime next year, NASA is hoping to send the crew of Artemis II around the moon and return them to Earth; if the mission goes as planned, the four astronauts will travel farther from Earth than any humans previously. Meanwhile, our robotic probes have travelled much farther; the Voyager 1 spacecraft, for example, is now in interstellar space, some 25 billion kilometers (almost 16 billion miles) from our planet.
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