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Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021)

New Books in Science

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'Sam Astrono' and 'Chris Hatfield'

I spoke to chris nichol a, helen charman and rusty schwicot. The thing that struck me was that some of them go up to space and go bloody ell thes is amazing. But they don't seem to have got such a magical experience out of it. I would say it's as true for nichol helen and chris, except they went up where they'd spent a long period of time thinking about it. It's not that it wasn't shocking or beautiful or remarkable. It's just that it was, or had been, assimilated to some extent.

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