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'A great chapter of the history of the world is written in the chalk': 4 May 2022

" ... we have observed nothing but the natural product of the forces originally possessed by the substance of the universe."

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Brendan Howard
May 20, 2022
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It’d be fair to think the last two generations of scientist-writers did something never before seen in the history of man: making modern science palatable and understandable to the common man.

Think Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” (example here), with his interstellar ideas and geologic-time views of our animal and earth past. And Brian Greene, who pushes hard for…

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