“A child today asked if shadows get tired by evening, and I know the answer is no, but emotionally I think she had a point.”
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Nora Ellis is thirty-four, an exhibit designer at a hands-on science museum in a mid-sized city where school groups arrive in waves, toddlers lick the same glass panels no matter how often they are cleaned, and adults pretend they are only pressing the buttons because their children asked them to. She designs interactive exhibits about light, sound, motion, pressure, magnetism, perception, and all the ordinary miracles people stop noticing once they learn the proper names for them. She grew up in a narrow terraced house with two teachers for parents: her mother taught primary school, her father taught physics badly but enthusiastically, and both believed that a good question was more valuabl…
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