Ecstatic Science

By: Matthew Battles
March 23, 2009

Here’s a quick post pointing to Hulu’s Cosmos channel, where Carl Sagan’s entire groundbreaking PBS series may be streamed for free.

Sagan’s series introduced a generation to a universe that was both comprehensible and mystical–an ecstasy of rationalism. We’re looking forward to diving back into the strangely wonder-filled universe of Carl Sagan.

Thanks to Jason Kottke for spotting and blogging this.

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aliens, Carl Sagan, religion, science, SETI

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

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