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Moral Moments

Philosophical Astronomy

by Joel Marks

“Over the course of a day, the earth spins once, or 360 degrees.” So pronounces The New York Times for August 26, 2005. Hardly news, you might say. But the asserted fact did have relevance to the news – which was that a team of geophysicists had found confirming evidence that the earth’s solid iron inner core rotates a tad faster than the rest of the planet: an extra 0.3 to 0.

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