May we present the newest of the people of LWON, Richard Panek? Richard thinks that the history of the telescope is a history of mankind’s view of itself; that Einstein and Freud introduced us to the possibility of things both important and invisible; that our knowledge of the universe is constrained by the cosmological Dark Sector; and that the New York Society Library’s open stacks of books talk so loudly he can’t think: “All of history, all those voices, all at once,” he says. We are proud to have him and I’m personally a little worried he’s going to make me and Abstruse Goose look silly. His first post is on Monday.
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