astronomy

A defiantly "amateur: newspaper that seeks to inform on what's happening, what isn't and what should be, featuring a broad range of contributors and topics. In this issue: News on the Circle Line, HIV Testing, Grocery shopping in Pilsen rated, photos from Alaska, Chicago winters in the context of Sir Walter Scott's Antarctic journey, owning and borrowing cars, Pluto gets demoted from a planet, and interview with Andy van Slyke, analyzing baseball data using Pyhtagorean differentials, the Apocalypse according to the Mayan Calendar, paper consumption, including lyrics with liner notes, and predicting the future using old Science Fiction books, including robots and artificial intelligence.

Space for Machines #3 is the pseudohistorical story about the shadowy interactions of an astronomer, an architect, and a dancer. Frank Drake, Jack Sherman Baker, and Margaret Erlanger all almost converge on a plot of land in Urbana, Illinois. Illustrated with original photography, ephemera, SETI diagrams and archival material.