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Ann Druyan (b. June 13, 1949) is an author and media producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to popularize and explain science. In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god. Focusing on this sense of awe and wonder, it has been said that Druyan is a pantheist, though she has never described herself as being such. June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ...
1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
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Pantheism literally means God is All and All is God. It is the view that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. ...
Druyan wrote the books Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as well as sections of The Demon-Haunted World, with her late husband Carl Sagan. In addition, she wrote an introduction to The Cosmic Connection and the epilogue to Billions and Billions, both by Sagan. Alone, she wrote the novel A Famous Broken Heart. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is a book by Carl Sagan. ...
Dr. Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrobiologist, and highly successful science popularizer. ...
In the areas of film and television, she was one of the writers for the television series Cosmos, and a producer of the film Contact. Most recently, she is the CEO and a co-founder of Cosmos Studios. She also serves as President of the NORML Foundation Board of Directors. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was the name of a thirteen part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan which was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980. ...
Contact DVD Contact is a 1997 film adaptation of the science fiction novel Contact by Carl Sagan. ...
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws or NORML (pronounced normal) is a US-based non-profit corporation founded in 1970 to, according to their most recent mission statement, move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by...
Other projects that she has been involved in include the selection of the music on the record on the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, and the Cosmos 1 spacecraft which intended to demonstrate solar sail propulsion. A NASA artists rendition of a Voyager spacecraft The Voyager 1 spacecraft is an 815-kilogram unmanned probe of the outer solar system and beyond, launched September 5, 1977, and currently operational. ...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched in August, 1977. ...
An artists rendering of Cosmos 1 orbiting the Earth. ...
Concept image of a solar sail spacecraft in the process of unfurling sails. ...
Quote - I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They're ancient. We see them in Genesis, this first story, this founding myth of ours, in which the first humans are doomed and cursed eternally for asking a question, for partaking of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. It's puzzling that Eden is synonymous with paradise when, if you think about it at all, it's more like a maximum-security prison with twenty-four hour surveillance. It's a horrible place. Adam and Eve have no childhood. They awaken full-grown. What is a human being without a childhood? Our long childhood is a critical feature of our species. It differentiates us, to a degree, from most other species. We take a longer time to mature. We depend upon these formative years and the social fabric to learn many of the things we need to know. --Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan
Awards The Richard Dawkins Award is a prize awarded annually to a person (or persons) for their outstanding work in the promotion of atheism. ...
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