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\u00a0 \u00a0 It won\u2019t surprise many who know me or know much about my thinking that I\u2019m not an unalloyed fan of the late astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan. \u00a0But I like this piece, and I like the principles from Sagan that it sets forth \u2014 even if I think that Dr. Sagan himself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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