The comic writer Douglas Adams died a few weeks ago at age 49. He is best known for “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” a science-fiction satire that sold 14 million copies worldwide.
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Seeing the sun, feeling the fire
“Knowledge has killed the Sun, making it a ball of gas with spots,” wrote D. H. Lawrence in one of his crankier, anti-science moments. Boy, he couldn’t have been more wrong.