Word: sagan
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...Ithaca may not be the average place to take high school physics, or to parent: physicist Carl Sagan sent his children through the district that shares its small city with enormous Cornell University. That doesn't mean every family in town has a computer in the home. Ithaca has discussed opening its computer labs to parents and the community after hours. "We need to make sure we're not just reaching a fraction of the population," LaPier says. And parents do express concerns about their child's privacy, as well as access to inappropriate material online. But they're coming...
...academics have long been writing books for larger audiences. Former professor of psychology B.F. Skinner popularized the psychological theory of behaviorism in his Walden II, and most of astrophysicist Carl Sagan's later work was geared for popular appeal...
Some academics who do succeed in popular writing have worried that this will cause them to lose the intellectual respect of their peers, Freed says, pointing to Carl Sagan as an example...
Although they've found no aliens thus far, Leigh says that Horowitz did manage in part to inspire the Jodie Foster character, Ellie Arroway, in the Carl Sagan novel Contact, which was subsequently turned into a popular movie of the same name...
Leigh says Sagan, who co-authored a paper with Horowitz in 1993 and published the best-selling Contact in 1995, had the fictional Arroway work on some of the same projects Horowitz worked on in real life...