This article on Carl Sagan has been up for several days, so many of you might have seen it already, but I just got around to reading it today. I was a Sagan fan, so I enjoyed it a great deal. It's an excellent profile of what he believed and accomplished. It also gives a … Continue reading Why Carl Sagan is Truly Irreplaceable
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A trailer for Cosmos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb5tdqplTqQ This is a trailer promo for the remake of 'Cosmos', the Carl Sagan classic from the early 80s. I remember watching the original Cosmos on PBS. It was, in many ways, a major eye opening event for me. Sagan had a knack for communicating the sheer wonder of science. I'm a fan of Neal … Continue reading A trailer for Cosmos
The Varieties Of Scientific Experience
There are currently a lot of books on the market which deal with the question of God. Most of them are either polemical, apologetic, or philosophically dense. One that often gets overlooked is Carl Sagan's book, The Variety of Scientific Experience. This book is a transcript of Sagan's Gifford lectures in the 80s, edited by Sagan's … Continue reading The Varieties Of Scientific Experience
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