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Experts in this issue...
Colin Stuart is an astronomy writer and
co-author of the The Geek Guide to Life.
He was awarded runner-up in the 2014
European Astronomy Journalism Prize,
and is a Fellow of the Royal
Astronomical Society. (p32)
Professor Yujin Nagasawa specialises in
the philosophy of religion, the philosophy
of mind and applied philosophy at the
University of Birmingham. He is the
author of Maximal God: A New Defence of
Perfect Being Theism. (p54)Kat Arney is a science writer,
broadcaster, author and harpist based
out of London, U.K. Her book Herding
Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding How
Our Genes Work is out now. (p60 and
p76)Giles Tremlett is a journalist, author and
historian based out of Madrid, Spain,
and has written for The Guardian and
The Economist. In 2012, he was voted
Correspondent of the Year by the
Madrid International Press Club. (p62)COLIN
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On 5 September 2017, NASA celebrated 40 years of the
Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts. What makes this event
remarkable is that it is a celebration of humanity’s
farthest and longest-lived mission. It marks yet
another landmark in the ability of our kind to venture
beyond the confines of our own planet and blaze trails
with hard work, perseverance and innovation. The
Voyager 1 also went on to become the first human-
made object to enter interstellar space. In our cover
story this month, we find out how it may further help
us understand the birth of stars, dark matter, and the
origins of life. (p32)
Space will never cease to amaze, and the Great
American Eclipse of 2017 is yet another example of
this. This total eclipse, one that could be exclusively
seen from the U.S., was a rare and mesmerising
phenomenon. Find out more in our story on the
spectacle on page 68.
Perhaps the best way to expand ourselves and our
minds is to dare to tread on paths less taken. Much
like in life, we hope that with every page you flip in
our magazine, you find something that inspires you.
From decoding the concept of panpsychism – the
idea that all matter is conscious (p54) – to the ancient
adaptations of the grey fox (p62), there is much in here
to discover.
We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did
curating it!
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