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The 52:52:52 project, launching both on this site and on social media in early 2024 will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

This site addresses what's changing, in our own lives, in our organisations, and in wider society. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 areas, ranging from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and very much else inbetween.

Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Space

On Stardust Halcyon In Kal… 14 May 2014

Every atom in our bodies was fused in the body of an ancient star. NASA astronomer Dr. Michelle Thaller explains how the iron in our blood connects us to one of the most violent acts in the universe- a supernova explosion - and what the universe might look like when all the stars die out.

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To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery before my eyes? - Anaximenes, 6th Century B.C.E.

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The next Venus transit will be in 2117. That is 105 years from now. It's unlikely that anyone reading this today will still exist then. Think about that: The next time the orbits of Earth and Venus align just so to create a transit, the world will be entirely populated by an entirely unborn generation - Adam Frank, http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/06/04/154282601/the-venus-transit-wh…

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The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself - Carl Sagan

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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight up - Fred Hoyle

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It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is - Jorge Luis Borges

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To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery before my eyes? - Anaximenes, 6th Century B.C.E.

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Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight up - Fred Hoyle