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Evan Gough

About Evan Gough

Evan Gough lives on the West Coast of Canada with his wife and daughter, where he supervises tree planting contracts and thinks about science.

Here are my most recent posts

Book Review: The Life and Death of Stars

April 19, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter “The Life and Death of Stars” is a thorough and richly detailed book that will tell you all you want to know about stars. The author, Kenneth R. Lang, is Professor of Astronomy at Tufts University, and he clearly has the [...]

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Book Review: Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries

January 31, 2013

“Unraveling the Universe’s Mysteries” is Louis A. Del Monte’s contribution to the world of science writing. If you haven’t heard of him, don’t be surprised. He’s not a prolific author or researcher, but worked in the development of microelectronics for the US companies IBM and Honeywell before forming a high-tech e-marketing agency. The book lives [...]

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Book Review: “Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images”

December 5, 2012

The Hubble Space Telescope has been the subject of several books and articles, and certainly much more will be written about it in the future, as its status as the world’s most successful science experiment will guarantee that. And though breathtaking images are what hooks many people on the telescope, the Hubble was designed and [...]

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Could the Next Planetary Rover Come from Canada?

October 29, 2012

Prototype of the new Juno rover, a 300 kg rover for a mission to Mars or the Moon. Credit: CSA The Canadian Space Agency is well known for its robotics but they’ve recently expanded from robotic arms to building prototypes for five new rovers, designed for future lunar and Mars missions. They range from microrovers [...]

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Book Review: The Half-Life of Facts; why everything we know has an expiration date

October 10, 2012

Review by Evan Gough Knowledge is changing all the time. New facts replace old facts, more precise measurements supersede previous measurements. What was once considered true is overturned daily in our quickly changing times. In “The Half-Life of Facts: why everything we know has an expiration date,” Samuel Arbesman brings some clarity to our constantly [...]

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