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Science Fair

This week, the Ether Game Brain Trust is grabbing a beaker and bunsen burner, donning our protective eyewear, and heading into the lab! It's an all science show tonight, a show that we're calling "Science Fair."

Did you know...

  • Alexander Borodin was a composer in his spare time, but a chemist by trade!
  • The opera and symphony Die Harmonie Der Welt by Paul Hindemith is about the life of the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler.
  • English astronomer William Herschel, the man who discovered the planet Uranus, was also a composer in the same vein as Joseph Haydn.
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