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Broca's Brain: The Romance of Science

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Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.

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  1. Carl Sagan Broca\s Brain: The Romance of Science
  2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. PART I. SCIENCE AND HUMAN CONCERN
  5. CHAPTER 1
  6. BROCA ’S BRAIN
  7. CHAPTER 2
  8. CAN WE KNOW THE UNIVERSE?
  9. REFLECTIONS ON A GRAIN OF SALT
  10. CHAPTER 3
  11. THAT WORLD WHICH BECKONS LIKE A LIBERATION
  12. CHAPTER 4
  13. IN PRAISE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  14. PART II. THE PARADOXERS
  15. CHAPTER 5
  16. NIGHT WALKERS AND MYSTERY MONGERS: SENSE AND NONSENSE AT THE EDGE OF SCIENCE
  17. ASTRAL PROJECTION
  18. SPIRIT RAPPING
  19. THE CARDIFF GIANT
  20. CLEVER HANS, THE MATHEMATICAL HORSE
  21. PRECOGNITIVE DREAMS
  22. SOME RECENT BORDERLINE DOCTRINES
  23. AND THEIR CRITIQUES
  24. CHAPTER 6
  25. WHITE DWARFS AND LITTLE GREEN MEN
  26. CHAPTER 7
  27. VENUS AND DR. VELIKOVSKY
  28. PROBLEM I. THE EJECTION OF VENUS BY JUPITER
  29. PROBLEM II. REPEATED COLLISIONS AMONGTHE EARTH, VENUS AND MARS
  30. PROBLEM III. THE EARTH ’S ROTATION
  31. PROBLEM IV. TERRESTRIAL GEOLOGY AND LUNAR CRATERS
  32. PROBLEM V. CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
  33. PROBLEM VI. MANNA
  34. PROBLEM VII. THE CLOUDS OF VENUS
  35. PROBLEM VIII. THE TEMPERATURE OF VENUS
  36. PROBLEM IX. THE CRATERS AND MOUNTAINS OF VENUS
  37. PROBLEM X. THE CIRCULARIZATION OF THE ORBIT OF VENUS AND NONGRAVITATIONAL FORCES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
  38. SOME OTHER PROBLEMS
  39. CHAPTER 8
  40. NORMAN BLOOM, MESSENGER OF GOD
  41. CHAPTER 9
  42. SCIENCE FICTION – A PERSONAL VIEW
  43. PART III. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN SPACE
  44. CHAPTER 10
  45. THE SUN ’S FAMILY
  46. CHAPTER 11
  47. A PLANET NAMED GEORGE
  48. TABLE 1
  49. THE FIRST MARTIAN CHANNELS TO BE NAMED
  50. TABLE 2
  51. NAMES OF THE SATELLITES OF THE OUTER PLANETS
  52. TABLE 3
  53. PROPOSED NAMES FOR JOVIAN SATELLITES
  54. CHAPTER 12
  55. LIFE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
  56. CHAPTER 13
  57. TITAN, THE ENIGMATIC MOON OF SATURN
  58. CHAPTER 14
  59. THE CLIMATES OF PLANETS
  60. CHAPTER 15
  61. KALLIOPE AND THE KAABA
  62. CHAPTER 16
  63. THE GOLDEN AGE OF PLANETARY EXPLORATION
  64. PART IV. THE FUTURE
  65. CHAPTER 17
  66. “WILL YOU WALK A LITTLE FASTER?”
  67. CHAPTER 18
  68. VIA CHERRY TREE, TO MARS
  69. CHAPTER 19
  70. EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE
  71. CHAPTER 20
  72. IN DEFENSE OF ROBOTS
  73. CHAPTER 21
  74. THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN ASTRONOMY
  75. CHAPTER 22
  76. THE QUEST FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
  77. PART V. ULTIMATE QUESTIONS
  78. CHAPTER 23
  79. A SUNDAY SERMON
  80. CHAPTER 24
  81. GOTT AND THE TURTLES
  82. CHAPTER 25
  83. THE AMNIOTIC UNIVERSE
  84. REFERENCES
  85. CHAPTER 3
  86. THAT WORLD WHICH BECKONS LIKE A LIBERATION
  87. CHAPTER 5
  88. NIGHT WALKERS AND MYSTERY MONGERS
  89. CHAPTER 7
  90. VENUS AND DR. VELIKOVSKY
  91. APPENDICES TO CHAPTER 7
  92. APPENDIX 1
  93. Simple Collision Physics Discussion of the Probability of a Recent Collision with the Earth by a Massive Member of the Solar System
  94. APPENDIX 2
  95. Consequences of a Sudden Deceleration of Earth ’s Rotation
  96. The Scopes Trial, 1925
  97. APPENDIX 3
  98. Present Temperature of Venus If Heated by a Close Passage to the Sun
  99. APPENDIX 4
  100. Magnetic Field Strengths Necessary to Circularize an Eccentric Cometary Orbit
  101. Carl Sagan


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