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Helmets of the Future
Jessy Randall
Issue:
11 August 2014
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outdoor helmet
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Jessy Randall
About Jessy Randall
Jessy Randall’s poems and stories have appeared in
Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, Nature
, and
Scientific American
. Her most recent book is
Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science
(MIT, 2022). She is a librarian at Colorado College, and her website is
http://bit.ly/JessyRandall
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