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Konstantin Kakaes is a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, writing about science and technology, and is the former Mexico City bureau chief for The Economist. His work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and The Washington Post and appears frequently in Slate. Before becoming a journalist, he studied physics at Harvard University. He lives in Washington, DC.

‘The Tower and the Ruin’ Review: Seeking Tolkien’s Past

Was a real privilege to review a moving analysis of some of my favorite books which shows how literary criticism can be a way to show your family how much you love them.
[Wall Street Journal]

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The Pioneer Detectives: Did...

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“Sometimes the gap between wrong and right is so negligible that we ignore it altogether. We pretend that the length of a day is 24 hours and that the ground beneath our feet is steady, when in fact the length of the day changes and Earth’s axis wobbles constantly as we hurtle around the sun at about 66,000 miles per hour and the sun moves around the center of the galaxy at about 500,000 miles per hour.”
Konstantin Kakaes, The Pioneer Detectives: Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?

“Five or six billion years from now, when the sun expands into a red giant, destroying Earth and any traces that might remain of the Air and Space Museum, or indeed of Washington, D.C., Pioneers 10 and 11 will continue, intact.”
Konstantin Kakaes, The Pioneer Detectives: Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?

“Jupiter radiates more heat into space than it absorbs from the sun.”
Konstantin Kakaes, The Pioneer Detectives: Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?

“It is the theory which decides what can be observed”
Albert Einstein

“A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.”
Paul Simon

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