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Let There Be Dark

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Technology journalist Rupert Goodwins reflects on what going blind suddenly taught him about science, culture and life.

When journalist Rupert Goodwins started losing his sight, he wasn't expecting a journey to the back of his eyeballs that would take him 500 million years through time with stops for the evolution of modern philosophy, the nature of experience and the curious nature of sight itself. The surprise began in the night sky when the stars started going out...

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