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George Musser is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine, where he focuses on space science and fundamental physics. He is the recipient of the 2011 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics and the 2010 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award from the American Astronomical Society. Musser was one of the lead editors for the magazine's single-topic issue “A Matter of Time” (Sept. 2002), which won a National Magazine Award for editorial excellence, and he coordinated the single-topic issue “Crossroads for Planet Earth” (Sept. 2005), which was a NMA finalist and won the 2005 Global Media Award from the Population Institute. He is a member of the Foun ...more

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“We feel closer to those who are distant and farther from those who are close.”
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“For a sense of how weird the behavior of light seemed to Einstein, consider what he did to take a break from thinking about it: he invented general relativity. That’s like taking a break from Middle East peace negotiations to invent a cure for cancer.”
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