{"id":987,"date":"2024-12-29T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T14:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2024-12-29T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T14:39:22","slug":"another-year-another-3-cover-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/another-year-another-3-cover-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Another year, another 3 cover features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-it-works-covers-2024-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-it-works-covers-2024-1024x467.jpg\" alt=\"How It Works covers 2024\" class=\"wp-image-985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-it-works-covers-2024-1024x467.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-it-works-covers-2024-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-it-works-covers-2024-768x350.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-it-works-covers-2024-1536x701.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/how-it-works-covers-2024-2048x934.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been writing regularly for <em>How It Works<\/em> magazine for over 5 years now, with at least one article in every issue this year. As <a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/three-more-cover-features\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/three-more-cover-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last year<\/a>, I&#8217;ve managed three cover features in 2024, as pictured above. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"margin:1em;\"><strong>Time<\/strong> (issue 187, February) &#8211; the history of timekeeping from the Antikythera mechanism to atomic clocks, together with a bit of relativistic theory on time dilation and spacetime<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"margin:1em;\"><strong>The Science of Eclipses<\/strong> (issue 188, March) &#8211; with a particular focus on the much-publicized 2024 solar eclipse, as well as ESA&#8217;s much less widely reported Proba-3 &#8220;artificial eclipse&#8221; mission, also launched in 2024<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"margin:1em;\"><strong>Quantum Physics Explained<\/strong> (issue 197, December) &#8211; covering all those things that used to give me nightmares as an undergraduate, such as the double-slit experiment, Schrodinger&#8217;s cat and the uncertainty principle, as well as newer developments like quantum teleportation and quantum-dot displays<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing regularly for How It Works magazine for over 5 years now, with at least one article in every issue this year. As last year, I&#8217;ve managed three cover features in 2024, as pictured above. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of them:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,70,51,39],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-astronomy","tag-magazines","tag-physics","tag-popular-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}