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new blog: According to Carl Sagan
There’s a brand-new Sagan-related blog in town; topics in the 4 posts so far have ranged from the evolutionary origins of sports to neglected rocket pioneer Robert Goddard. Since Carl weighed in on a truly wide variety of topics, there should be plenty of material to blog about.
(Hat tip: Francois Tremblay; cross-posted to my [...]
Solstice
Dr. Sagan on the solstice.
Help Celebrating Sagan Grow
A lot has changed since David and I started Celebrating Sagan in December of 2006. And while we’ve both moved on to other projects and different things, I’ve never been happy with how we left website. I especially always felt that it could and should be more.
Thanks to the help of Joel the site has [...]
Across the Universe
Thomas Mallon has an article in the most recent issue of The Atlantic about solar sailing and The Planetary Society. In the article he interviews Ann Druyan and Louis Friedman.
As friends of Carl Sagan you all are probably familiar with the concept solar sailing, but for those that don’t know, here is an excerpt from [...]
"Carl Sagan Lives On" livejournal community
As the title suggests, on LiveJournal, there’s a community called “Carl Sagan Lives On”, described as “an open community dedicated to the life, wisdom, and legacy of Carl Sagan.” It’s been running since 2003, with 94 posts in total; the number of posts has tapered off recently (only 6 posts in 2008), but maybe [...]
Cosmos is now on Hulu
Well, the website which has become known for offering up full-length TV shows (and a few movies) for free, ad-supported viewing (with a selection including a good amount of genre shows from The Addams Family to Firefly, but very light on science shows, and no, this doesn’t count) has added the complete run of Carl [...]
Ann Druyan special on Equal Time for Freethought
Today, to mark Carl Sagan’s birthday (he would have been 74), the WBAI radio program Equal Time for Freethought broadcast a special interview with Sagan’s widow and collaborator Ann Druyan (the half-hour interview was originally intended for a fund drive show in September, but not aired in its entirety until now). An audio permalink [...]
Carl Sagan jack-o’-lantern
By Caleb Pennypacker, via Nick Sagan’s blog:
This brings back memories, since one of Nick’s earliest posts ever on his blog referenced an illustration that I made for Halloween 2005 combining a pumpkin with a famous scene from Georges Méliès’s Le Voyage Dans la Lune.
Sagan and Reagan
Over at the ScienceBlog Framing Science, Matthew Nisbet wrote about two men that he considers to be the top communicators of the 1980s, President Reagan and Dr. Sagan:
In the years before cable television fragmented Americans into ever smaller viewership groups, both men took advantage of the broadcast television networks to communicate directly to a mass [...]
Carl Sagan in Time Warner Presents The Earth Day Special (1990)
One of Carl Sagan’s more obscure movie appearances is in a video tribute to the environmental holiday produced by Time Warner in 1990. The special mixes its message with entertaining cameos by a wide array of pop culture celebrities, from Christopher Lloyd reprising his role as Doctor Emmett Brown from the Back to the [...]
