Archive for November, 2010
The Sagan Essay Contest Winner! The Cosmic Tour Guide – By Renee James Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was life-changing. It was what every fable promises. A simple street urchin is, in fact, long-lost royalty. Only it wasn’t a fable. I was connected to the cosmos. Me! Read Full Essay My Father – By Dorion Sagan [ READ MORE ]
Charting the Islands of the Cosmic Ocean – By Dan Mills The universe is actively organizing, developing, and sustaining life, generating sensation, perception, and mind. We become part of a much larger process. We become part of the waking mind of the cosmos. Inhabited worlds spaced like neurons, joined in a universal network investigating reality. [ READ MORE ]
We Are at the Prow of the Whole – By Rui Borges We find ourselves, in this present time, in this present space, sharing a common opportunity to consciously share the wonders of this journey through the Universe. We are, at the same time, those with the power to generate questions and to seek the [ READ MORE ]
The Restless Spirit of Science – By Bret S. Moore There is in humanity a great, latent restlessness. We are rarely content to enjoy the same view for very long. We can’t seem to help ourselves, we are constant migrants, vagabonds, equal parts Huck Finn, Leo Africanus, and Alice. Read Full Essay Some Personal [ READ MORE ]
A Beacon In The Cosmic Ocean – By Nick Previsich It took a moment for my eyes to adjust. Slowly, though, the sky above began to appear granular. After a few more minutes I saw brighter lights and many, many lesser ones…and they kept coming. The longer I looked, the more became apparent. Gradually, I [ READ MORE ]
Keeping Our Place In A Complex Universe By Michael Fried Photons stream into your eyes and are interpreted by your spectacularly sophisticated brain. Your brain, which is capable of instantly picking the correct words to form sentences out of its collection of tens or hundreds of thousands of words. After all, the you that thinks [ READ MORE ]
Today at Kepler’s: Echoes on the Shore: Reflections of the Legacy of Carl Sagan – By Christian Brown Sagan was a spokesman for a glorious reality that is, for all of its awesomeness, undeniably real. In the eye of the public, geniuses and charlatans alike are most often judged not by the content of their [ READ MORE ]
Today is the launch of Kepler Mission’s celebrations of Carl Sagan’s 76th Birthday, to take place on November 9. To mark the occasion, essays from the general public and articles by invited guests will be published on a daily basis at Kepler’s website. Today you will find an essay by Sarah O’Sullivan and a [ READ MORE ]
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