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    Head in the Clouds

    Mar 04, 2021 2 minutes

    N 1956, the Ford Foundation approached Rachel Carson with the idea of writing the script for a television documentary about clouds. This was around the time that meteorologist Vincent Schaefer was first publishing his research into cloud forms, which, contrary to prior scientific understanding, he’d found to be not at all arbitrary. Carson

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