Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
A few Numbers for you … 8.5 Million viewers for the first night Another 40 million people worldwide will watch the premiere this week And (not a surprise) the traffic on Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s wikipedia page has shot up Here also are a couple of reviews that I liked … Your God is too small – on … Read more
Do you remember Cosmos? It was an amazing thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan’s wife) and Steven Soter, with Sagan as presenter and was first broadcast back in 1980. It became the most widely watched series in the history of American public television at that time, and has since then been broadcast in many different countries, so much … Read more
“Interestingly, when I applied to Cornell, my application dripped of my passion for the study and research of the Universe. Somehow the admissions office brought my application to the attention of the late Dr. Sagan, and he actually took the initiative and care to contact me. He was very inspirational and a most powerful influence. Dr. Sagan was as great as the universe, an effective mentor.”
