All Entries Tagged With: "video"
Demon Haunted World
Gunnar shared a Sagan related video that he made via the submission form. Check out his take on science as a candle in the dark:
The Known Universe
Danny Ledonne says, “Beautiful stuff – Sagan would want a front row seat.”
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
Sagan Mashup
via ajboyer on Twitter.
God, the Universe and Everything Else
Solstice
Dr. Sagan on the solstice.
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" released on DVD last week
If you’re wondering why you never heard of a spinoff of Cosmos based on Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s book of the same name, it’s because the film in question — a 1964 Soviet film by Sergei Parajanov — was instead the source for the name of the Sagan/Druyan book! (Also, the film is not a documentary as one might expect, but fiction.) This seems to be the first North American region DVD release. Some links to stuff about the film:
"Atheist" video by Zachary Kroger
This five-minute video in “defense of atheists” has been a hit on YouTube since its debut in mid-2006 (with more than 800,000 views and 80,000 comments, and praise from the likes of James Randi, Michael Shermer, and Penn & Teller), but has gotten extra attention from a mention in the article “God and Man on YouTube” in last week’s New York Times Magazine.
Much of the video (a “video response” to icecorescientist’s Pale Blue Dot video) features slides of famous people who many might not realize are atheists (similar to lists on websites like this one); and sure enough, Carl Sagan is featured:
The star of Contact also appears:
And at the end, this quote is featured:
