Catalog

speculations on the evolution of human intelligence

Carl Sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos

science as a candle in the dark

or how a disciple of Carl Sagan an ex-motocross racer a Texas Tea Party congressman the world's worst typewriter saleswoman California mountain people and an anonymous NASA functionary went to war with Mars survived an insurgency at Saturn traded blows with Washington and stole a ride on an Alabama moon rocket to send a space robot to Jupiter in search of the second Garden of Eden at the bottom of an alien ocean inside of an ice world called Europa (a true story)

stories of growing up with famous fathers

the story of the Voyager Golden Record

rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world

a novel

in search of the recipe for our universe from the origins of atoms to the big bang

the new science of planet hunting in the cosmos

carbon and the evolution of (almost) everything

Margaret Mead the Cold War and the troubled birth of psychedelic science