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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Carl Sagan"”.
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
… of the dissertation reads novels by astronomer Carl Sagan and evangelists Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye to expose a co-constitutive relationship between conservative Christian fundamentalism and secular scientific materialism. While the novels appear politically opposed, Sagan and Jenkins/LaHaye …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… Fred Hoyle, Robert Oppenheimer, Rachel Carson, Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould. The representations of the contemporary celebrity scientists feature associations with these famous historical figures, associations that provide cultural continuity to science and serve as a means of marketing …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… to be human. Astronomer and popular scientist Carl Sagan writes in The Dragons of Eden, “Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species; and the most characteristically human activities are mathematics, science, technology, music and the arts—a somewhat …
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Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies
… to be human. Astronomer and popular scientist Carl Sagan writes in The Dragons of Eden, “Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species; and the most characteristically human activities are mathematics, science, technology, music and the arts—a somewhat …
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Mixed Signals: Communication with the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy
This dissertation examines the development of radio astronomy and the search for and communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) from the 1950s through to the early 1980s, with the aim of understanding how these fields reflected the tensions, successes, and anxieties of Cold War …