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A Call for Memories
Three years ago, Celebrating Sagan launched to coincide with the ten year anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. The purpose of the site is to celebrate the life and work of Dr. Carl Sagan by sharing how the man’s work and vision impacted all of us.
As we near the 13th anniversary, I’m remind that door is still open, and that we are still accepting submissions.
NYC book club to feature Sagan family book
On December 10, the Secular Humanist Society of New York book club will discuss Acquiring Genomes by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan; details here (Carl Sagan’s The Varieties of Scientific Experience has been featured in the past).
Happy Birthday Carl
All that we have seen is something of a vast and intricate and lovely universe. There is no particular theological conclusion that comes out of an exercise such as the one we have just gone through. What is more, when we understand something of the astronomical dynamics, the evolution of worlds, we recognize that worlds [...]
Play it again
John Boswell, the madly brilliant sound-chemist who Auto-Tuned his way into our hearts with “A Glorious Dawn” featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, has launched the laud-worthy project “Symphony of Science” which is “designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form.” You couldn’t ask for a better goal than that.– Chris Hardwick, Nerdist
New Horizons
Celebrating Sagan is now on Twitter. Follow us here for more Sagan related news.
Sounds of Earth
Probably the most humanizing and often talked about aspects of Voyager is the Golden Record… humanity’s message to the unknown. Here you can listen to just a few of NASA’s original recordings that were featured on the record.
Spacecraft to Be Launched Today
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 19–The Voyager spacecraft scheduled for launching tomorrow to scout Jupiter, Saturn, and possibly Uranus will be carrying a message from Earth on the off chance that extraterrestrial beings will come upon the craft centuries from now, somewhere on its endless journey beyond the solar system.
August 20, 1977
Voyager 2 launched 32 years ago today, and to celebrate, we’re going to publish a few Voyager related posts.
Stay tuned.
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" screening in NYC
The 1964 film by Sergei Paradjanov which provided the title for Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s book (and whose DVD release was noted here previously) is being screened, in a new 35mm print with subtitles, at Anthology Film Archives in NYC on the 21st and 23rd. AFA’s website describes it as “[a] boldly conceived [...]
