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Carl Sagan: My God, it's full of stars

Decoding the Gurus

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The Importance of Being at the Center of the Universe

In hunter and forager times many modes of modern nocturnal entertainment were unavailable. that I want to turn to the important and rueful fact that every human culture has considered itself at the center of the universe. Inuit had a word for themselves they describe themselves as the real people not that there was anything especially parochial about them.

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