Clear patient with their moderator and have a good evening. [inaudible conversations] youre watching book tv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. Here is a look at the current best selling nonfiction books. Topping the List National correspondent for magazine, between the world and me. Former president jimmy carter reflects on life and political career in a full life. Also in the denver postlist of nonfiction best sellers is h is for hawk by helen mcdonald, being mortal, and the what if, randal monroe. Many of these authors have or will be appearing on book tv. You can watch them on our website book booktv. Org. Christopher dickey is next on book tv. He he recalls the the war bunch in the american civil war. [applause] its working . Okay. Good. Its great to be here, politics and pros, which is really one of the great independent bookstores in the United States. I love independent bookstores. [applause] i was here once talking ye
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I’ve spent several weekends working on a presentation of twentieth-century science fiction set in the year 2021, and here is the fruit of my labours, a 21-minute video.
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BEEP BEEP, BEEP BEEP. Phil Plait, in a “Bad Astronomy” entry at
…A standard radio astronomy technique to make sure that what you see is coming from the object you’re observing is to move the telescope back and forth a bit to point to a different part of the sky and see if the signal persists (perhaps leaking into the dish from a source nearby); this is called “nodding” because it’s like a head nodding. When they did this, the signal went away, then came back when they repointed at Proxima.