Prof. Sam Lawler on Nostr: I am happy to say that I reached the point in my career where I got a 4:30pm phone ...
I am happy to say that I reached the point in my career where I got a 4:30pm phone call from CBC national news asking if I'd do a live TV interview about the Perseids in less than 2 hours (less than 1 hour by the time I noticed the voicemail), and I just...didn't. Because WOW that's short notice and while I appreciate journalists reaching out to astronomers to talk about astronomy things, surely there's got to be someone else who can talk about this particular thing that happens once a year?
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