Click Here to Read: The Book-Piracy Problem: A conversation with Damon Beres and Gal Beckerman about the ethics By Lora Kelley in the Atlantic Monthly on August 23, 2023.
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Author: Tamar Schwartz
Russia and India are landing on the moon next week
Click Here to Read: Russia and India are landing on the moon next week: Here’s what you need to know by Geoff Brumfiel on the NPR website on August 19, 2023
Click Here to Read: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole on the AP website on August 20, 2023.
L3 lunar lander. The flat, downward-facing face (left) of the ovoid pressure cabin holds the round viewport (not visible). The Kontakt system passive unit is at cabin top, and two landing radar booms extend at left and right. Nozzles of two solid-fueled hold-down rockets are visible at the tops of the legs, near the bases of the radar booms. Note that this is an earlier model than the one that crashed in August 2023. Image:
Click Here to Read: Russia and India are landing on the moon next week: Here’s what you need to know by Geoff Brumfiel on the NPR website on August 19, 2023
Click Here to Read: Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the moon, ending its bid to reach the lunar south pole on the AP website on August 20, 2023.
L3 lunar lander. Note that this is an earlier model than the one that crashed in August 2023. Image: http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/RP1357.pdf . Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
What Is Narcissism?
Click Here to Read: What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon Researchers debate whether grandiosity always masks vulnerability By Diana Kwon 3 Scientific American September 2023 Issue on September 1, 2023
Allegory of Vanity: A girl looking at herself in a mirror, oil on canvas, 51 x 60.5 cm; French school, 17th Image: Dorotheum Public Domain via Wikimedia.com
12 facts about space that will rock your world:
Click Here to Read: 12 facts about space that will rock your world: We live in a strange Solar System By Xavier Piedra and Dennis Green on the Mashable website August 14, 2023
Artist’s illustration of an ‘isolated neutron star’ — one without associated supernova remnants, binary companions or radio pulsations. Image: Casey Reed – Penn State University NASA. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
