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John Messick

Assistant Professor of Writing at Kenai Peninsula College and author of Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home

This handout photo dated 31 October 2002 shows an aerial view of the new elevated station (bottom-C) being built at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. (DAVID MCCARTHY/AFP via Getty Images)

Astrophysics and stale beer: What life is like working at the South Pole

John Messick