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...stars thought to be at least hundreds of millions of years old could soon generate new planets?a phenomenon astronomers have never seen. Scientists say BP Piscium in the PISCES constellation and TYCHO 4144 329 2 in URSA MAJOR display conditions that suggest they could form new planets. A closer look at the big news from astronomy...
...fucking camel, man. But Anna is holding a ten-hour rehearsal today and isn’t allowing anyone to pee. I think that’s how Copernicus died.[Note: Actually, Copernicus’s death was unrelated to urine, while fellow astronomer Tycho Brahe died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave a banquet to relieve himself...
...planetary orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...
Issue four of "Eiland" (Bries; 28pp.; $13.95), by a pair of Dutch artists, Sefan J.H. van Dinther and Tobias Tycho Schalken, doesn't come at you like a comicbook. You push the contents out of an open-ended cover sleeve. Into your lap plops an eight-and-a-half-foot-long piece of shiny cardstock that has been folded back and forth, accordion-style. Each side of the sheet contains a story by one of the artists, which because of the folding, means the book has no front or back and the end of one turns over to the beginning...
...just can't get enough of student-written plays, take a stroll to the Leverett Old Library Theater for End of Motions. Written by David Kornhaber '02, who is also a Crimson executive, the play concerns the relationship between the 16th century astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. The two great minds spent a year together when the young Kepler escaped religious persecution at home to serve as an apprentice to the renowned and aging Brahe. Through a fierce intellectual competiton, they together redefined the entire course of modern science. And, oh yes, it's something of a comedy...