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A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge

By Katrina Miller · The New York Times · May 2026

A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge

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"In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots."

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