Episode #749
News Items
- AI Will to Survive
- First Cyborg
- Confessions of an Astrologer
- National Parks and Mental Health
- Meat from Air
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: Baby sloth
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Fiction
Elon Musk donated an undisclosed amount of money, but known to be north of 10 million dollars, to create the Carl Sagan Collection at the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-13-200/
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Item #2
Science
He was passed over for promotion at Harvard, because his work was considered to be too wordy and useless. So he settled for a job at Cornell instead. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/64954/11-out-world-facts-about-carl-sagan
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Item #3
Science
Sagan dictated all of his writing, including all of his books, to cassette for someone else to transcribe. https://www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/carl-sagan-and-the-tradition-of-science/sagans-thinking-and-writing-process/