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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agree... I think astrology and music is a bad combination." He continues, "I think cosmology and cosmetology get confused even more. Here's a quick tip: If you want to have unwanted hair removed, go to a cosme-tol-ogist, not a cosmologist. If you wanted unwanted dark matter removed, that's a different story...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Astrology with Prof. Kirshner | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...However, Kirshner doesn't think this argument will persuade many horoscope readers. "It doesn't matter to them," he says. "It's a system of belief, not a scientific thing... It's outside organized religion, but it has all the trappings of it. It has ceremony, it has ritual, it has books of authority that are not unquestionable...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Astrology with Prof. Kirshner | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...back even a hundred years ago, and if you wanted to listen to music, the only way you could listen to music was if you were listening to somebody else make music, and therefore with other people. You couldn't get entertained alone, as a technical matter...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...That's not what I'm saying. I'm trying to say that it's not a matter of trying to go back to some old-fashioned institutions, like telling people not to watch TV and so on. It's a matter of creating new things. That will not be broccoli...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...like being a grouch, and I don't like being a grouch about TV, in telling people to stop watching TV. But the fact of the matter is: when you look at the data, it's just frightening...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Bowling with Prof. Putnam | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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