Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2022-06-25
Books mentioned on Why Bother Searching for Aliens? | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 81
Steve Levitt discussed Contact by Carl Sagan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Contact
Discussed“so back in the 1970s the famous the son where Carl Sagan wrote a novel called Contact in which the heroine was essentially a fictionalized version of you”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Contact
“if you've read the book contact written by Carl Sagan or seen the movie Jill was the inspiration for the hero played in the movie by Jody Foster”
Passing Contact
“If you've read the book "Contact" written by Carl Sagan or seen the movie, Jill was the inspiration for the hero played in the movie by Jodie Foster.”
Passing Contact
“After this short break, they'll return to talk about Jill's role in Carl Sagan's story, "Contact."”
Plugged Superfreakonomics
“so I expected to be delused with anger emails because that's what happened when we talked about solar geoengineering back in super Freakonomics”