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December 2, 2011
in Humanities, Philosophy, Religion, Science

PBS Airs the Journey of the Universe Documentary Film

December 2, 2011
in Humanities, Philosophy, Religion, Science

Follow @yaleSCIbooks In his television series Cosmos, whose Emmy-award winning co-creator served as one of the directors of the new film Journey of the Universe, astronomer Carl Sagan declared, “We are all stardust.” The sentiment was already a familiar one, for in Joni Mitchell’s famous 1970 song “Woodstock,” she too

October 17, 2011
in Humanities, Philosophy, Religion, Science

Finding Our Place in the Universe on the Page and Screen

October 17, 2011
in Humanities, Philosophy, Religion, Science

Follow @yaleSCIbooks In our age of calculators, computers, and the fifteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, most questions are pretty easy to answer. Why is the sky blue? What is the cube root of 1331? Who was Fredrick the Great of Prussia? Still, in some areas, uncertainty lingers—even though we