The Stars In The Eyes And The Light You Can Hear

I said in the newsletter the other week that we’re wary of false springtime out here. Yesterday, hailstones. Right now? Snow.

At the Economist: anti-anti-tank weapons development.

Marcia Resnick, They were continually telling her that she had stars in her eyes, from “Re-visions,” 1978.

“Duane Hamacher’s “The First Astronomers” explores the deep and living star knowledge of First Nations people from around the world—and challenges the notion that Indigenous knowledge is not scientific.” This article connects back to Gordon White’s STAR SHIPS for me, and I will need to get this book. Also, nice quote in the piece:

Sámi—the indigenous people of the northernmost parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway—refer to auroras as guovssahas, meaning “the light you can hear.”