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  <title><![CDATA[Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science]]></title>
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  <default_description>Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences, and other provocative, fascinating quandries of the future that we want to see today.</default_description>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 15 19:49:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The name is apt as Carl explores the evolution of the modern scientific mind. So very well written. ]]></body>
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    <review id="55960782">
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  <date_added>Wed May 13 13:27:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun bunch of facts, but there's no narrative. It doesn't build to anything. I love Sagan, but it felt like this just bounced off me.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 13 13:54:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 14 08:13:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of essays, all somehow related to science. I read it over the course of several months - not because it wasn't interesting, but because sometimes I just wasn't in the mood for it. The articles on skepticism and the history of science were fascinating, but the later descriptions ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37648221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42425100">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 05 17:53:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 21:28:12 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Muy buen libro de divulgación, consiste de puras opiniones. La parte central que son ensayos acerca de astronomía planetaria estan bastante interesantes. Creo que hay material innecesario acerca de la refutación de un libro de pseudociencia.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 22 13:41:21 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 18 21:58:34 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A love letter to the wonders of scientific exploration (else it would not be Carl Sagan!), and at the same time a serious and sympathetic look at pseudoscience and credulity, foreshadowing The Demon-Haunted World. A beautiful read, save for a long point-by-point refutation of another author's absurd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27978141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26318378">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 04 15:31:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 04 15:40:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is responsible for fueling my obsession with Astronomy and Physics.  Sagan's ability to romanticize the <strong>big questions</strong> and craft artful replies that even a lib arts major could understand amazed me. ]]></body>
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    <review id="22976634">
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  <date_added>Mon May 26 09:00:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 26 09:01:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book held the least interest of Sagan's book save perhaps pale blue dot.  I hold them about equally.  Certainly not terrible but 'long' reads.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22976634]]></url>
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    <review id="8783689">
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[eh, ok this one isnt as good, its like the stuff he didnt have time to fit into dragons of eden, but that still makes an interesting read.]]></body>
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    <review id="44626763">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've grown up as a big fan of Carl, but as with most great science and tech writings, I think this book has passed its prime.]]></body>
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    <review id="28752840">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 30 10:18:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know that I would reread this one, but it did begin my love of popular and unpopular science reading for fun.]]></body>
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    <review id="25096576">
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  <date_updated>Sat Jun 21 21:10:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Enlightening, readable science to explain where we came from, and maybe where we're going.]]></body>
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    <review id="14840192">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Feb 07 13:02:37 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't remember much about this book now, other than I liked it!  Another good Carl book!]]></body>
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    <review id="20125937">
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 14 08:58:07 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 14 08:59:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This should be a school textbook. The world would be a better place.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20125937]]></url>
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    <review id="26759920">
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    <name><![CDATA[Josh]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 09 10:41:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 09 10:42:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[found this one in hi skool. Paul Broca--thank you]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26759920]]></url>
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    <review id="13561188">
    <user id="833439">
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 25 15:45:42 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 25 15:46:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic Sagan.  GOODSTUFF.  READ THIS.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13561188]]></url>
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    <review id="824898">
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    <body><![CDATA[read it as a kid, loved it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A candle in the dark]]></body>
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    <review id="2515766">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Cosmos]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rated: C]]></body>
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