Darwin on the exchange of letters: “It is seldom that one individual has the power giving to another such a sum of pleasure, as you this day have granted me.— I know not whether the conviction of being loved, be more delightful or the corresponding one of loving in return.— I ought for I have experienced them both in excess.”
Wisconsin Public Radio’s excellent Conversations with Larry Meiller interviewed Stargazing Basics author Paul Kinzer yesterday about the International Year of Astronomy. 400 years ago, Galileo first turned his telescope skyward.
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Free Book Friday: Grandaisy Bakery, Tribeca Park, 12:30. You may be thinking to yourself, “Gee, I’d love to come to Free Book Friday, but it’s rainy and nasty outside!” Your heart is in the right place.