Broca's Brain

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…ugh you could read it as one if you tilt your head properly. But how can you not know anything else about Carl Sagan? He wrote many books popularizing science, including Contact , The Dragons of Eden , Broca's Brain , and Cosmos . He also co-wrote and hosted the series Cosmos on PBS, which is the most-watched PBS show in history, and well worth watching on DVD. He was founder and first President of The Planetary Society ( http://www.planetary.org/ ). He was an avid supporter of SETI. He assembled the gold plaque that went into space on Pioneer 10, and the golden records that went out on the Voyager probes. As an astronomer, he made several important hypotheses about the structure of other planets, particularly Venus, and drew connections between Venus and Earth-based global warming and greenhouse emissions. He was active in investigating …