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His style as playful as ever, Timothy Ferris explores inner as well as outer space in these essays on the human mind, the search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, and their intersection. Other chapters look at comet strikes as a source of species extinction; near-death... read more

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First Sentence

Perhaps you've seen the painting: A pipe, depicted with photographic realism, floats above a line of careful, schoolboy script that reads Ceci n'est pas une pipe-"This is not a pipe.

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  1. Timothy Ferris (Author)

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  3. popular science
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