Reading List: Carl Sagan
3 Books – Sorted by reading date · All books · All authors
2010 1
June 1
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Recently, while working on another text about a book by Carl Sagan, I was looking for a video on YouTube. I really liked one of the comments there: “Every disaster begins with a scientist who was ignored.” It is, after all, a recurring trope in films: a scientist is ignored by a politician, and the politician later die
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1998 1
January 1
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Neil deGrasse Tyson called it “The Book of Carl”: “Pale Blue Dot” (in German: “Blauer Punkt im All”). The name refers to the small blue dot in one of the most famous images taken by Voyager 1. It was taken from a distance of “billions and billions” of kilometres (six billion, to be exact) and shows our Earth. Not even
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1986 1
December 1
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As a fourth-grader, staying up late isn’t exactly easy. I had to promise not to be grumpy the next morning, however tired I was. I kept that promise, and so I was actually allowed to stay up, for weeks on end. What for? In 1983, Cosmos was on TV, and I got to watch every episode – together with my parents. It’s one of
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