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Cosmic Queries – Astro-lore with Moiya McTier
StarTalk Radio
I Love Astrophysics and Folklore Mythology
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Astrophysics and folklore mythology were not on the list of things that Harvard administrators thought people would want to study together. Neil Gaiman: "You can't afford to lose bodies" So they did let me study both of them. But only after I gave a list of potential thesis topics that I could write, because when you do a double major at Harvard, you have to write a thesis that sits at the intersection of your two fields. What I ended up doing was writing a science fiction novel that was set on a real exoplanet that I studied. And I characterized it with data from Kepler.
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