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Tuesday, October 16th – Cleveland

We woke early to join the Cleveland Rush hour on our way to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. We set up in their observatory for an interview with Dr. Lawrence Krauss, Director, Center for...

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Wednesday, October 17th – Chicago

Transit to Chicago. Successful. A well-deserved rest taken.

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Monday, October 22nd/ Tuesday, October 23rd – Chaos of the Flame

As soon as the crew (Anita and Kris) returned from the East Coast on Sunday, they didnt even have a chance to unpack their things before heading back off to complete some of the last-minute interviews...

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Wednesday, October 24th – Lowell

Wednesday morning, the team awoke bright and early, prepared for an early morning departure. Their sleepy eyes, in need of caffeine and about 2 more hours of sleep, crossed the street to the nearest...

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Friday, October 27th – Apache Point

We departed early Thursday morning from our hotel room in Las Cruces, New Mexico heading east towards Sacramento Mountains where we would find the Apache Point Observatory and NSOs Sunspot Observatory....

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Satruday, October 27th – NSO and Tucson

David Dooling of NSO came a-knocking at our cabin door this morning, prepared to show us the Sunspot facilities. He took us up to the solar telescope at the top of the hill that is shaped like an...

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Monday, October 29th and Tuesday October 30th – Boston

We flew to Boston, specifically to the Harvard Observatory, to interview Dr. Owen Gingirich, who is not only a brilliant and lively historian, but also a captivating writer on the movers and shakers of...

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Wednesday, October 31st – Halloween on Kitt Peak

We were back in Arizona, and found ourselves at the offices of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a device planned to be in operation in the great year of 2009. The LSST is a proposed ground-based...

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Thursday, November 1st – LBT/ Friday, November 2nd – Driving Home

After dinner at a Mexican place Wednesday night, we sacked out until the next morning, where we had a bit of time to organize our gear, charge our batteries, and pour a bunch of Starbucks into our...

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November 10th 2007

After parking at home for a night, we packed up for the last of the interviews for the production, and drove to Cal Tech, in Southern California, to interview Dr. Charles Beichman. He spoke of the...

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