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Aaron Sachs

Aaron Sachs teaches at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition, which combines historical scholarship with memoir.

The Hidden Music of Words

The Hidden Music of Words

Academics shouldn’t scoff at literary prose—they have much to learn from it

by Aaron Sachs | Tuesday, October 11, 2016
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Wallace Stegner’s Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

A calming influence

by Aaron Sachs | Monday, July 20, 2015
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The Bookroom

by Aaron Sachs | Monday, February 23, 2015
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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”