Arik Kershenbaum, a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, was born in the US in 1965. He is a leading expert in animal vocal communication and a member of the board of advisers for Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Meti).
Taking a steamship from the USA to the UK in 1969. I didn’t find out until much later why we did that – my father had been hounded out of his job as a professor for his opposition to the Vietnam War. But I was astounded that the windows were rectangles – I had assumed they would be circular portholes!
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