Truly,
C
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
THEY HAD TO CHANGE ALL THE TEXTBOOKS
I recently started signing my emails with a footer signature "Remember Pluto (1930-2006)." A and I were walking on Haight in SF when we saw a t-shirt with the phrase, and I thought how clever, but how sad too, this poor former planet of ours. And this morning, I hear Neil Degrasse Tyson speaking about his new book The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet on NPR. It catalogues the "controversial" decision by astronomers and the emotional reprecussions from elementary school students especially, publishing between its pages some of these crayoned, impassionate letters from the littleones.
Truly,
C
Truly,
C
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3 comments:
Pluto... thrown in the deep corner of our solar system all alone, and now not allowed to play with the other kids! Poor fella
i heard him on NPR too! to think that we were listening to the same thing at the same time. and i very rarely get to listen to NPR these days (no more driving). aw ching i miss you!
...Lily? Aw I miss you too. Isn't not having to drive such a blessing though?
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