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Two recent books look at the very human (sometimes all-too-human) process of trying to make sense of the known universe:  The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries  Phantoms and Fakes  by Malachy Tallack  and The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth  by Elizabeth Tasker .  They 're so stylistically and scientifically disparate as to seem unrelated  but reading  them  in close succession makes for something greater than the sum of its parts â a joint atlas of human guesses in a world that seems destined to confound us.
 Elizabeth Tasker  knows all about that; The Planet Factory is all about the formation of worlds humanity might never clap eyes on. And if you're hoping for definitive answers about how things work closer to home  think again;  Tasker 's very clear that the scientific method is as often about being proven wrong. "The problem (and there is always a problem)" isn't just an aside on a particular theory  but a thesis for the field. This is a book about trying to map unknown seas in real time; the ghosts of the sailors peering into the dawn looking for Thule live in every telescopic survey.
The Planet Factory can feel intimidating; certainly you must come to it wanting to know everything there is to know about making planets  and hang in there as long as you can before the variables overwhelm you. ( Tasker  offers easy analogies by the handful  and while at first they may seem too easy  you'll appreciate them by the time you're trying to understand the optimum timing of planetary migration.)
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MANILA  Philippines (AP) â Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said someone should talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to convince him nobody is out to remove him or destroy his country.
"A nuclear war is totally unacceptable to everybody " Duterte said Sunday before flying to Japan  where he is on a two-day visit. "And somebody has to talk to  Kim Jong Un ."
He suggested the U.S.  Japan  South Korea  and others assure  Kim  nobody is threatening  him  and to ask  him  to stop threating a nuclear attack.
"It would be good if America  Japan  Korea  and Mr. Kim Jong Un talk and to convince  him  to sit down on a round table and just tell  him  that nobody's threatening  him   that there will be no war  and that if  he  can just tone down or stand down  stop the threats  and that would be the same for America "  he  added.
The one single country that can calm down  Kim  is China  Duterte added during his pre-departure news conference in southern Davao City.
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There will be a museum  of course  but also a basketball court  maybe a room for yoga classes  and a "test kitchen" to teach visitors “about the full production cycle of nutritious food" (likely pushed by  former first lady Michelle Obama   whose signature issue during  her  tenure was a campaign for healthy eating).
There were details that offered hints about where things have gone since we saw the initial plans for a three-building complex — an obelisklike tower housing a museum  a forum building and what could be a small branch of the Chicago Public Library — in Jackson Park’s northwest corner. The tower’s top floor could be a space for reflection  free and open to the public  with views of Lake Michigan and the surrounding city  including the Collegiate Gothic spires of the University of Chicago. The museum itself  a multilevel facility with exhibition spaces lodged in the tower’s midsection  would be open only to visitors who buy tickets. Obama  the architects said  wants an outdoor plaza framed by the three buildings to be able to host food trucks. A fourth building south of the main cluster  an athletic center  would house facilities including a basketball court where the former president could shoot hoops. A display board showed pictures suggesting the center could also include a dance studio and a room for yoga classes. The athletic center  according to the display board  “will offer visitors opportunities to enjoy neighborhood athletic activities.” Other display boards pictured a recording studio in the forum building that would provide “a place of creative expression” for the center’s visitors; an outdoor garden that would pay homage to Michelle Obama’s White House garden; and a test kitchen that would teach visitors “about the full production cycle of nutritious food” — a prominent cause for the former first lady.
My problem isn’t the design  though the centerpiece is a tower  heavy around the midsection and tapering to a narrow top and bottom. To me  it evokes a soft-boiled egg in a giant eggcup. What brought me up short was a space in the adjoining Forum building labeled “test kitchen.” Presumably that reflects  Michelle Obama ’s war on junk food. The museum’s champions similarly suggest it could host yoga classes. President Obama  is that how you want to be remembered? As the healthy-eating and meditation-advocating president?
We guess so. It's all a bit weird  but maybe that's a perfect way to memorialize  Obama .

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