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Lost Worlds

A juxtaposition of science and life, in the editor’s note from Print Issue 47. The post Lost Worlds appeared first on Nautilus.

hen Summer Praetorius, author of this issue’s cover story, shared this photo of her brother, Jebsen, with me, I was enchanted beyond belief. It’s like a Norman Rockwell painting, I told

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