Reading List: science
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2024 1
October 1
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Whenever I hear about Neil deGrasse Tyson, I immediately think of Carl Sagan. And yet the two differ greatly, at least in public. Both are – or were – great science communicators. But each of them is also a product of his time. I always saw Carl Sagan as the calm, quiet scholar with an uncanny gift for explaining thing
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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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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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