telescope
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Local air pollution authorities, possessing little power and even less solid science, singled out oil industries, factories, manufacturers and chemical companies, and they weren’t wrong — just looking through the opposite end of the telescope.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Flipping the telescope to the large end is not unique to this particular cohort, nor is it anything to criticize or demonize.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
Argentina’s recent decision to pause a joint Chinese effort to construct a large radio telescope is a hopeful sign.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The telescope will search for difficult to detect near-Earth objects, including dark asteroids and comets that reflect very little visible light.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
It is easy to think that new knowledge comes from new types of apparatus—Galileo’s telescope, Boyle’s air pump, Newton’s prism—not from new intellectual tools.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
