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  • “But ideas lie everywhere, like apples fallen and melting in the grass for lack of wayfaring strangers with an eye and a tongue for beauty, whether absurd, horrific, or genteel.”
    - Ray Bradbury
    Zen In The Art Of Writing

Bitten By A Radioactive Carl Sagan

I’m totally obsessed with reading stuff by or about Carl Sagan these days. It all started when I decided to watch the Cosmos series again and found it to be even more awesome than I remembered.

Sagan’s storytelling style is really strong and I think that’s because he comes from a place of genuine interest in connecting with people. And his constant awe at the wonders of the universe don’t hurt either…


(Comic by XKCD which is a really awesome webcomic if you didn’t know, which you should have.)

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  1. JennNo Gravatar says:

    Bwahahaha thats awesome!

  2. GlenndaNo Gravatar says:

    Can you give me some links directing to Karl Sagan’s stories? Or can you tell us about him?

    • AnitaNo Gravatar says:

      Glennda,

      Carl Sagan is one of the best storytellers I’ve ever seen. He was a scientist that cared a lot about communicating the stories of science and the universe to the public, even though many of his colleagues continually put him down for this.

      Here’s a sample of his work that elegantly tells the story of how humans evolved from the beginning of the universe. He explains how every human is a way for the cosmos to know itself:

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