Maintaining mental balance

Telescope

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Finding solace from human affairs in the eypiece of a telescope or microscope

I will freely admit that, as I write this column, my nerves are not at their most steady. I will not be getting into the political reasons for this – they aren’t difficult to guess. But what I learned in 2016–2020 was that I needed to pace myself, and I am hoping that being a scientist makes that easier to do.