Donald Lamb is the fortunate soul who gets to print on his business card that he is the director of the Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes at the University of Chicago. I actually wrote a poem once about a cosmic gamma ray burst, though apparently this is a different phenomenon from the one described in the article. The poem is called “Seeing Stars: The New Cosmology” & it’s in my book Magical Thinking.
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During the early 20th century cold war over the Arctic, one of the many departments in the Soviet Arctic bureaucracy was “The Bureau of Ice Prognostication.” That sounds like a government office in which I could happily work, and with the recent resurgence of Arctic tensions, I am hopeful.
That’s a good one, Steve. There may even be a poem in the phrase “ice prognostication.”