I read this short story a year and a half ago and I can't for the life of me remember where I found it, the name of it nor who wrote it.  It starts off with some aliens, who can only speak from direct contact, from Mars visiting the planet one closer to the sun (Earth) to make some observations, take data, etc. and one of the aliens, who they call a 'poet' decides they wish to stay behind and the captain of the aliens reluctantly lets them go.  The poet then goes on to create a home, and eventually finds a human child who they look over and nurse back to health. Over time they eventually meet an older human who threatens them with a gun before agreeing to assist them. As the story progresses more and more humans congregate to make sort of a town and they start getting better and better until the alien starts to appear sick and dying, so they go into hibernation.  The story ends with the original martians coming back and finding the settlement, now larger, and talking about the poet.
I'm looking for the title of an anthology of children's science fiction stories from the 1950s. The best of the bunch involved a Martian who visited earth, and realized we'd blown ourselves up in a nuclear war and had fallen into savagery. The Martian is a vegetarian who subsists on biscuits made by a machine he brought with him, and communicates by using one of his tentacles to feed messages direction to/from the brain of the person he's talking to.  Inadvertently left behind by his expedition, he initially befriended some children, and eventually managed to rebuild civilization. Presently he dies, but when another expedition comes a generation later, they find the civilization he rebuilt.  there were other stories, but that was the best one.   If I can't find the name of the book it was in, I'd be happy to settle for the name of the author and the title of the story.
How do I remotely wake my Mac over Wi-Fi? Ubuntu 20.04 still supporting Python2 SD card partitioning? why? how? Auto Increment Problem in Mysql I imagine a point-like particle can only experience the local properties of spacetime. But locally there is no curvature and no gravity, as it is often stated that     Locally, as expressed in the equivalence principle, spacetime is Minkowskian, and the laws of physics exhibit local Lorentz invariance. ()   But if this is the case how does a point-like particle know, which direction it should follow in a gravitational field?   Can this be a seen as a hint that point-like particles cannot be used as underlying concept for a field theory like general relativity? Unary intersection of the empty set Is it touch(1) from coreutils-8.4-37.el6.x86_64 or my brain which is broken?  $ touch abc $ LANG=C stat abc   File: `abc'   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file Device: fd04h/64772d    Inode: 10485773    Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (3060399/ nodakai)   Gid: (  418/   quant) Access: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 Modify: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 Change: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 $ touch -a abc $ LANG=C stat abc   File: `abc'   Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file Device: fd04h/64772d    Inode: 10485773    Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (3060399/ nodakai)   Gid: (  418/   quant) Access: 2016-10-14 18:42:17.374235446 +0800 Modify: 2016-10-14 18:42:06.189751847 +0800 Change: 2016-10-14 18:42:17.374235446 +0800 $ touch --help | grep 'access time'   -a                     change only the access time   As you see, it was not only atime but also ctime which was updated by touch -a !?!?  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