Nick Martell
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Our resort in the Maldives keeps three astronomers on staff to chaperone the stargazing.
India, Norway, New Zealand, they're all opening dark sky preserves.
New thing.
With no light allowed.
The middle of nowhere, Nick?
Is now a somewhere, Jack.
Because since 2012, the night sky on Earth has gotten 9.6% brighter every year.
according to the journal Science.
Ah, light pollution, more humans, more street lights.
Every eight years, the night sky gets double as bright.
Besties, if you did a dark sky vacation for Memorial Day, tell us how it went in the comments.
I hope your eyes are fully adjusted, but this is an audio experience, Jack.
Who's stepping on me right now?
Get off of me.
I think it's the astronomer.
I think it's the astronomer, Jack.
There's a rhyme and a reason to how pharmaceuticals get their crazy names.
Naming drugs is wildly more interesting than you realize.
And there's a takeaway in this story for you.
But Jack, let's go back to our favorite literature.