David Kipping is an astronomer and associate professor at Columbia University, where he leads the Cool Worlds lab.
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Mentioned Books
- Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? by Nick Bostrom (Essay)
- Are You Living in a Simulation? by Nick Bostrom (Essay)
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb
- If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens… Where Is Everybody? by Stephen Webb
- Man’s Place in Nature by Thomas Huxley (essay implied in evolution discussion)
- Project Blue Book (related works) by J. Allen Hynek
- Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation by Freeman Dyson (Essay)
- Solaris by Stanisław Lem
- Stellar Movements and the Structure of the Universe by Arthur Eddington
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
- The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
- The Eddington Eclipse Experiment by Arthur Eddington (Essay)
- The Fermi Paradox by Enrico Fermi (Essay)
- The Inflationary Universe by Alan Guth
- The Overview Effect by Frank White
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (implied in evolutionary biology context)
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- UFOs and the National Security State by Richard Dolan