Introduction — why bother with the media’s supermoon coverage? My wife’s haziness about the details of the “supermoon” last night encouraged me to pay some attention to how the popular media had covered this ordinary happening. (I wondered just how much my science background predisposed me to understanding something that other people would not.) I [...]
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