- Gamma Andromedae is a rather interesting double star within our own Milky Way galaxy. First, the primary is a very yellow star, and the secondary an intense blue. At over 350 light years distance, the light from these stars reaching us today left not long after Christian Huygens proposed that Saturn had rings… in the 1600’s! But the star gets even stranger. The dimmer blue secondary is itself a double star, averaging a Sun/Neptune distance. Stranger still, the primary of THAT system is ALSO double! So Gamma Andromedae is really a quadruple star system.
- Timothy Leary (Wikipedia)
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from bold oracle to publicity hound. According to poet Allen Ginsberg, he was “a hero of American consciousness”, and writer Tom Robbins called him a “brave neuronaut”. During the 1960s and 1970s, Leary was arrested 36 times; President Richard Nixon allegedly described him as “the most dangerous man in America”.