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  • Mapping the Galaxy from Portugal

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    I spent the week before last in Portugal working with the team designing and building the GEM telescope: The Polarized Galactic Emission Mapping Project in Portugal. GEM (aka GEM-P or even P-GEM-P) aims to measure the emission of our Milky Way galaxy using light at a wavelength of 6 cm. Those frequencies are dominated by…

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  • Aliens in London?

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    The aliens are taking over London: (Actually, this is a picture of one of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeesten, encamped in London for the summer, courtesy of the ICA.) And this must be the mothership: (And this is the summer’s Serpentine Pavilion, designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup.)

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