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...It’s not until Oppenheimer and history return to view that Hell makes sense, with a line slyly borrowed and modified from Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo??: “August 6, 1945: Heaven abolished.”The show doesn’t so much end as dissolve, which is meant as praise. Too often artists use History to de-fang the past—think “Schindler’s List”—but Videt finds resonance in events which remain indeterminate, unknown...
...found is 20.5 light years away and can be found in the constellation Libra. Members of the CFA, which has played a major role in the search for exoplanets, heralded the discovery as momentous. “This discovery can be compared to what happened 400 years ago with Galileo??s discovery of Jupiter’s moons,” said Dimitar Sasselov, a professor of astronomy. “It is amazing that it happened on the 400th anniversary of Galileo??s discovery.” At the Center, many scientists are heavily involved...
...Carmona’s fate seems tame compared to some of Galileo??s colleagues who were burnt at the stake for believing in heliocentrism, but we don’t live in a late-medieval theocracy. America is the daughter of the Enlightenment, the most technologically advanced country in the world, and a superpower that owes its modern strength to science more than anything else. In order to protect the security and strength of the United States and ensure that we leave our children a planet we would want to live in, it is vital that the next...
Science and religion have never been easy bedfellows. From Galileo??s trial to the Kansas Board of Education, the histories of science and religion are intertwined in what has long been an antagonistic relationship. But the stakes today are as high as ever—are religion and science reconcilable, or are they fundamentally at odds? Despite a recent spate of strongly-worded books on both sides of the issue aimed at the public sphere, in the Academy at least, science and religion have, for the most part, reached an uneasy truce—by segregating themselves, utterly...
Monday, Oct. 17. “The Planets.” The former New York Times science writer Dava Sobel, author of “Longitude” and “Galileo??s Daughter,” discusses her new book, which examines the planets through the lens of popular culture. 6 p.m. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Free tickets are required and can be picked up at the Harvard Book Store information desk...
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