
Marina Koren on Rethinking the “Overview Effect”
The writer speaks about why the phenomenon that can occur when seeing the Earth from outer space needs to be studied and understood in a more nuanced way.
February 13, 2023
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Marina Koren, who covers science and space exploration as a staff writer for The Atlantic, realizes her job doesn’t sound real. “But I promise it is,” she says. “When I tell people I’m a ‘space reporter,’ they’re not quite sure what to do with that. But space is a beat.”
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