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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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Elizabeth Tasker

WNBA star Breana Stewart  is now sharing a story of  her  own in light of the #MeToo movement.
In an essay called "Me Too" on The Players' Tribune   Stewart  revealed that  she  was sexually abused as a child by a man who lived in one of the houses of  her  relatives.  She  said the man was a construction worker and smoked cigarettes but did not identify  her  abuser.
 Stewart  said  she  turned to basketball during this time because it "became a sort of safe space" for the current Seattle Storm forward.
"In some ways  I'm still the same 11-year-old who just wanted to go to practice  " Stewart  wrote. "I've never been to therapy. I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to relive it. It's something I've tried to tuck away as far back on the shelf as I could. But that only works to an extent. I've cried. I cry most after I tell someone who's important to me. Talking about what I went through  explaining all of it -- it guts me. I'm forced to relive it. That's when it hits that what happened is real. It wasn't just an awful nightmare. It wasn't some other life I lived at another time."
The 23-year-old said  she  told  her  parents about the abuse when  she  was 11 years old and the man was later arrested and confessed his crimes.  Stewart  said  she  wishes  she  could forget the memories of  her  experience.
"I'm angry he took advantage of me as a child. I'll never get that time back. And what memories I still have  I'll never be able to erase them. Sometimes I wish for a few more black holes "  Stewart  said.
 Breanna Stewart  said basketball became a safe space for  her  as child. (Jessica Hill/AP)
 Stewart  said  she  decided to come forward with  her  story because the movement is something bigger than  her .
 Stewart  was a basketball star for the UConn women's basketball team.  She  won the NCAA national championship four times and was given the Naismith Award for college basketball's most outstanding player on three occasions.
So far  she  has seamlessly transitioned to the WNBA and was given the Rookie of the Year award in 2016.
Breana Stewart

Activist investor Carl Icahn  says  he  will nominate four people to join the board of Xerox at the annual shareholder meeting next year.
Christodoro joined Xerox's board in 2016 as part of an agreement with  Icahn   and  his  departure ends that arrangement  clearing the way for new nominations. Icahn Associates is Xerox's biggest outside shareholder  with a 9.4 percent stake  and  Icahn  first disclosed a stake two years ago.
Xerox split into two companies last year: Conduent  which contains its business services units  and Xerox  the equipment maker. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that  Icahn  was aiming to shake up Xerox's top management in this latest fight. A date for the shareholder meeting has not yet been set.
 Icahn 's new slate of nominees includes Christodoro; Keith Cozza  also associated with  Icahn ; Jay Firestone  the CEO of Prodigy Pictures  and Randolph Read  the CEO of Nevada Strategic Credit Investments  an investment fund.

Carl Icahn

