Jessica says,
This is the opposite of a meme in a way. It’s so profound. It’s so far away. It’s so suitably impossible… There’s something profound about the fact that this thing preceded us, will outlive us. It’s further away than our newsfeeds and I find that almost like a religious experience. And I’m not a religious person.Also mentioned this week:
- NASA, Image of the Black Hole
- Matt Ford, New Republic, In Defense of the Blurry Black Hole Photo
- Dennis Overbye, New York Times, Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole
- James Gleick, Faster
- Popular Mechanics, Behind the Scenes of the First Black Hole Photo,
- Popular Mechanics, How They Got the Black Hole Picture That Changed Science
- NYT, How Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project
- Margaret Hamilton and Katie Bouman diptych
- Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News, How One Omnipresent Gadget Makes Your Life Worse Everyday
- Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, An Artist Rises and Brings a Generation With Him
- Liz Jackson, The Girl With The Purple Cane
- #comicsanstakeover
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