A Glorious Dawn
So, yeah, my dad put out a new music video. John Boswell over at Colorpulse Music is a mad genius, sampling both Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’sUniverse series into three minutes and thirty-four seconds...
View ArticleAt The Airport Yesterday
I had the good fortune to pick a line with a TSA security guard who was in an excellent mood, cheerful and friendly to everyone, which was perfect in that moment because it helped make the process of...
View ArticleReturn of the Sagan Pumpkin
Mad genius Caleb P. tops last year’s Sagan Pumpkinwith this gorgeous creation. On this Halloween, the 4th anniversary of this blog, it’s a weird and beautiful night here in Ithaca, New York. Very...
View ArticlePioneer Plaque Immortality
A BBC reporter recently interviewed me for a program they’re doing about the Pioneer Plaque, which provided me the happy opportunity to reflect on my mom and how her art might be remembered: I’m...
View ArticleMom’s Pioneer & Voyager Interviews
Last week, I played host to not one but two film crews so they could interview my mother, Linda Salzman. On Thursday there was the upcoming BBC show, The Beauty of Diagrams, where internationally...
View ArticleScience Channel Press Release
NICK SAGAN SIGNS DEVELOPMENT DEAL WITH SCIENCE CHANNEL, SON OF THE ICONIC CARL SAGAN SET TO HOST AND DEVELOP NEW SERIES AND SPECIALS (Silver Spring, Md.) — Science Channel has signed sci-fi writer...
View ArticleLife As We Do Not Know It
Well, this is promising. A new life form: the microorganism GFAJ-1. While there’s nothing extraterrestrial about these little bacteria, it’s exciting to see we’ve grown a species that can handle...
View ArticleA Father’s Day Gift for Carl Sagan
How do you shop for Carl Sagan? I was never quite sure what to get him. Astronomical art? A traditional tie? Some years I made better choices than others, but too often I found it baffling. For...
View ArticleDiscovery Retreats
Tucked away in a red rock canyon amidst majestic Colorado mountainside, Discovery Retreats is a science-themed vacation resort envisioned as a refuge for guests to feed their minds as they revitalize...
View ArticleAnd We’re Back…
Welcome, welcome, welcome. As much as I loved the original site, it hadn’t changed much since 2004, so I’ve been working with Flourish Design Studio (highly recommended, by the way) to bring it into...
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