Ad astra

Neil Armstrong died on August 25th 2012, aged 82. A good innings, but we're still shocked and saddened. Why? It's always sad when people, amazing or no, pass away. But there's more to this than simply the ending of a life. His footprints will be on the moon for around 10 million years. Footprints of …

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Government, Science and Society

Well, sorry for this ridiculous delay in relaying the last chunk of the Science Communication Conference! Have been busy and distracted - have to say, there will probably be a much slower output for a while. There's actually still more but need to leave it at this for now! I'll be in Russia 23rd June …

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