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66. The Professor Who Said “No” to Tenure

People I (Mostly) Admire

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What Did You Learn in Theatre?

i went to an extremely mediocre public high school, and the only interesting teacher in the whole school was the theatre director. And so that meant that's what i spent my time doing, cause he was interesting person in the school. After about a year and a half, i took an astronomy course. Now i literally have no recollection why i taking an astronomy course, because i had never had the slightest interest in astronomy. But i became fascinated by one thing, which was binery stars. So it turns out our sun is typical, with the exception that it doesn't have a companion. It turns out most stars have a companion, sometimes two or three companion stars. From that simple brightness as

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