Joshua Sokol
Writer at Freelance
Freelance science writer, writing book for Random House
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6 days ago |
science.org | Joshua Sokol
The emperor’s chariot. A celestial marketplace. A toilet with excrement represented by a single star. Early Chinese astronomers, likely including a legendary one named Shi Shen, at some point grouped the stars they saw into depictions of an imperial court in the sky.
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Apr 5, 2024 |
quantamagazine.org | Joshua Sokol
IntroductionSolar eclipses were interpreted throughout much of history as bad news for the sovereign — an ominous sign for their personal health or that of the realm. But those fears helped fuel thousands of years of scholarship. This progress began in Mesopotamia with a hunt for periodic patterns in historical data.
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Apr 5, 2024 |
everand.com | Joshua Sokol
How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a second, thousands of years after fearful humans first started trying to anticipate these cosmic events.
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Nov 27, 2023 |
eltiempo.com | Joshua Sokol
Hace 50 años, dos hombres se despertaron en el último día de la humanidad en la Luna. Nadie volvería pronto. Los planes para más misiones Apolo se habían abandonado dos años antes, en 1970. Los dos astronautas de la NASA, el Capitán Eugene A. Cernan y Harrison Schmitt, se comunicaron desde el módulo lunar del Apolo 17 para cantar “Buenos días a ti” a la Tierra.
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Aug 29, 2023 |
quantamagazine.org | Joshua Sokol
IntroductionLast October, as the James Webb Space Telescope beamed down its first long exposures of the sky near the constellation Eridanus, astronomers began to piece together the story of a dim, flickering point of light that seemed to emerge from the deepest recesses of the universe. Whatever it was, it glimmered for too long to be a supernova; a single star, too, was off the table.
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