Physics for Poets
Astrophysicist Michael Salamon, who works at NASA’s Universe Division, says Walt Whitman — and a lot of other poets — misunderstood the beauty of the heavens. Give him a few minutes with Whitman, Salamon says, and the poet would have some revising to do. Produced by Lu Olkowski.
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