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  2. Carl Sagan - Wikipedia

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    Sagan in Rahway High School's 1951 yearbook. Carl Edward Sagan was born on November 9, 1934, in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough. [9] [10] His mother, Rachel Molly Gruber (1906–1982), was a housewife from New York City; his father, Samuel Sagan (1905–1979), was a Ukrainian-born garment worker who had emigrated from Kamianets-Podilskyi (then in the Russian ...

  3. Billions and Billions - Wikipedia

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    Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium is a 1997 book by the American astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan. The last book written by Sagan before his death in 1996, [ 1 ] it was published by Random House .

  4. Carl Sagan predicted the mess 2021 would be 25 years ago - AOL

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    Astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan managed to predict a lot of the things the challenges America faces in the year 2021 all the way back in 1995 when he was writing a book published just before ...

  5. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Wikipedia

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    Carl Sagan, seen here with a model of Viking lander, popularized the aphorism. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" (sometimes shortened to ECREE), [1] also known as the Sagan standard, is an aphorism popularized by science communicator Carl Sagan. He used the phrase in his 1979 book Broca's Brain and the 1980 television ...

  6. Ann Druyan - Wikipedia

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    Ann Druyan (/ d r iː ˈ æ n / dree-ANN; [1]) is an American documentary producer and director specializing in the communication of science.She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981.

  7. Contact (1997 American film) - Wikipedia

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    Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film in Panavision co-produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan.Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan wrote the story outline for the film.

  8. Broca's Brain - Wikipedia

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    Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science is a 1979 book by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan. Its chapters were originally articles published between 1974 and 1979 in various magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Physics Today, Playboy, and Scientific American. In the introduction, Sagan wrote: [1]

  9. Symphony of Science - Wikipedia

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    The second video in the series is 4 minutes, 12 seconds in length and features Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye. It was released on October 19, 2009. It was released on October 19, 2009.