Writing tagged: ‘astronomy’
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Newsletter No. 14: ‘The terror Carter’s warriors’
Liverpool • Chinese warriors • Ben Myers • shoes on wires • Patti Smith • Wuthering Heights • stratigraphy • astronomy • ancient DNA • storm petrels • LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!! • and more…
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Newsletter No. 8: ‘But is it Art?’
iPads • S-Town • Babylonian astronomy • Patti Smith • James Kelman • star-stuff • golden age of photography • conveying life’s wonders • horses • bees • organ donations • and more…
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Newsletter No. 3: ‘Peaking too soon’
Patti Smith • when your taste exceeds your talent • Spinosa • giant snowballs • reconciling longitude • two toddlers in a trench coat • opinions that need to be justified • Earth’s days lengthen • the universe has 20 times more galaxies than we thought • dinosaur tail preserved in amber • John Berger • and more…
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Invertigo
I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.
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Autumn alignments
Our kitchen might not be of World Heritage Site calibre just yet, but each autumn there comes a reminder that our house sits on the same spinning rock as Stonehenge and Newgrange.
