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...Angeles. Stoler, who has known Sagan since 1975 when Stoler was serving as TIME'S Science writer, spent the whole day following him, from the Griffith Park Observatory to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, to Venice, Calif., for a photograph of Sagan "on the shore of a cosmic ocean." Explains Stoler: "Since a real cosmic ocean was unavailable, we had to settle for the Pacific." The story was researched by Philip Faflick, who held jobs programming computers and writing mathematical games for grade-school students before becoming the Science section's reporter-researcher. Despite that expertise...
...moons, thousands of asteroids and billions of comets?the family of our sun." He fantasizes about large, tenuous life forms in the stormy atmosphere of Jupiter and about small, microbial ones in the reddish volcanic soil of Mars. To the space traveler, the earth is the shore of a cosmic ocean: "Recently, we have waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting...
...controls of his fantasy spaceship. Sagan's grandfather can rest easy now. His grandson is not only making a living, thank you, he has also become a star?indeed, a supernova of sorts?in the scientific firmament. Sagan's books, ranging from speculations about life beyond the earth (The Cosmic Connection) to ruminations about the reptilian ancestry of the human brain (The Dragons of Eden) have sold millions of copies and have been translated into a dozen languages. His lectures, on campus as well as off, attract overflow crowds. He is at home on late-night TV bantering with Johnny...
Chemistry 20a, "Organic Chemistry 3" rated third, enrolled 51 students more than last year to pass Astronomy 8, "Cosmic Evolution." The "vast majority" of the Chemistry class is pre-med, David Dolphin, visiting professor in Chemistry, said yesterday...
...book, Roots of Consciousness, Author Jeffrey Mishlove comes across as a true believer in the mysterious mental powers of parapsychology -mental telepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis. As Mishlove would have it, things like bending spoons through the pure power of the mind "are rooted in the essential core of our cosmic existence." Now it seems they will be rooted also in the groves of academe. Mishlove, 34, a former radio personality who spent seven years doing research in Berkeley's individual disciplinary doctorate program, has been awarded a Ph.D. in parapsychology by the University of California at Berkeley...