Celebrating Sagan

GIF: Carl Sagan Becomes the Sun

One of the most often repeated Carl Sagan quotes is about how all of everything is made from star stuff. Over at Flickr, Max Capacity +, recently posted an impressionistic take on this statement. The result is mesmerizing. So mesmerizing in fact, you'll need to click through to check it out.

Internet Folds In / Onto Itself, Result Sagan Old Spice Mashup

Carl Sagan and His Fully Armed Spaceship of the Imagination

Professional storyboard artist Michael writes about how Carl Sagan inspired his story called "Carl Sagan and His Fully Armed Spaceship of the Imagination"

Carl Sagan is Dead. Long Live Carl Sagan!

Zane Selvans is an admitted Amatuer Earthling, and is happy to share his thoughts and explorations on what it means to be a member of the adolescent human species. He lives in California, is both a scientist and a cyclist and wrote this exceptional essay that in part discuses two things -- 1) how he came to appreciate that the death of Carl Sagan and the corresponding dearth of new works by the deceased scientist ultimately means its up to us to move the conversation forward, and 2) how 'joyful and persistent understanding' are, in the words of Nietzsche, our, "highest and most proper metaphysical," purpose. Enjoy. Before I finished Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age in the Salt Lake City airport Monday, I found a book by Carl Sagan in the bookstore. “The Varieties of Scientific Experience”, based on his Gifford Lectures from 1985 (and published posthumously, in 2006 by Ann Druyan). I read half of it in the airport, and the other half last night. It went fast, because I’d heard it all before. The main piece of new information was that a decade and a half after the fact, Carl Sagan is truly dead to me. I’ve read most of his books, I’ve seen his television series Cosmos several times. I love his ideas; they’ve shaped me throughout my life, but I no longer hope to find anything new in them. So long as there were pieces of his mind that had been recorded, but that I hadn’t yet been exposed to, it was as if he wasn’t quite gone. He was still, from my point of view, a dynamic entity.

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Doctor Tony Prescribes a Healthy Dose of Idealism and Carl Sagan

Frustrated the modern cultural fixation on cynicism? So is Tony. That is why he's glad that he's found Carl Sagan. Check out this post he wrote for his blog, Your Daily Dose of Vitamin T.

I get so tired of cynicism, even in myself. It's so easy to say that we're going to, as a species, kill ourselves off, destroy the world, all of that, and I'll admit that I subscribe to that view myself sometimes when I run into the truly stupid members of our species. That's why, when I discovered Carl Sagan, a man who was absolutely brilliant and so obviously hopeful for us... it warmed the baseball-glove-sized radiator that I use for a heart.

The Day Neil deGrasse Tyson met Carl Sagan

Sagan book club follow up

Well, due to a problem with the email software, an old email from the Sagan Appreciation Society that contained a plug for last December’s SHSNY Book Club for Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan’s Acquiring Genomes was sent out just a few days ago; since the next book club meeting in the series, devoted to Michael Specter’s Denialism, [...]

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:

Calling all crafty-types

Hello fans of Carl Sagan. I’m working on post about Sagan related arts / crafts and I’d like your help. If you or anyone you know makes Sagan related things, please fill out this form and let me know. Thanks. Bryan.

The Symphony Continues

Back with the fourth installment of his Symphony of Science, John Boswell turns the focus from the cosmos to biology. This movement features Jane Goodall, David Attenborough and of course Carl Sagan. Check it out! And also check out the new Symphony of Science website. It's great. Click more for lyrics.