76 Plus 4

May 28, 2025

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One possible answer to the Fermi Paradox (if there is life elsewhere in the universe, where are they already?) is that microbes turn into cells which turn into civilizations that, like ours, inevitably develop the means to destroy themselves, and inevitably they do just that well before they’ve developed a knack for navigating wormholes or […]

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On Turning 76

May 24, 2025

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Which happens today, and so I’m remembering Sputnik, October 4 ,1957. I’m in the third grade, Mrs. Smith is reading the class a letter to the editor from the NY Times or, more likely, the Long Island Newsday. Our pb&j sandwiches sit warming in brown paper bags, intoxicating in the sunlight through the windows, and […]

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