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I noticed that you are now carried on Saturday by WNPR but having the Podcast, I didn't listen. Listening to it later, it ended abruptly during this segment with nothing about Russert, so I downloaded that segment and listened.
Only when I heard the WNYC broadcast, high on a hill in Wallingford, CT, did I hear the comments about "Contact" and Jodie Foster. Interested readers might like meeting a real scientist of the caliber of Foster's character in the film, through the pages of her book, "Warped Passages", by Lisa Randall, a Harvard physics professor.
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