Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
• Website: Data Skeptic
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• Published: 2016-12-12 01:00

Given the name of my website, its quite bayesian to infer that I'm a fan of Carl Sagan. I believe most people recognize him by name even if they're not familiar with his body of work. As Carl discusses in the opening, the very title "Billions and Billions" is probably the phrase the most quickly evokes thoughts of Carl. If the creators of the game Taboo had used Carl as the object to be guessed, surly "billions" would be the first restricted word, likely followed by "Johnny Carson", "Voyager", "Cosmos", and I would hope "skept