Clarke Discuss God, the Universe, and Everything ElseĬolin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. Watch Episode #2 of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos: Explains the Reality of Evolution (US Viewers)Ĭarl Sagan Presents Six Lectures on Earth, Mars & Our Solar System … For Kids (1977)Ĭarl Sagan’s Undergrad Reading List: 40 Essential Texts for a Well-Rounded ThinkerĬarl Sagan, Stephen Hawking & Arthur C. Or sign up for our daily email and get a daily dose of Open Culture in your inbox. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your contributions will help us continue providing the best free cultural and educational materials to learners everywhere.Īlso consider following Open Culture on Facebook and Twitter and sharing intelligent media with your friends. Would you like to support the mission of Open Culture? Please consider making a donation to our site. For a more extended treatment of evolution, see also our post from earlier this week on deGrasse Tyson’s episode on the subject, in which he spends an entire hour on his equally fascinating explanation of what, up to and including you, he, and I, natural selection has so far come up with. Though most of its original broadcasts on life, the universe, and everything still hold up as well as this clip on evolution, a 21st-century successor has lately appeared in the form of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, doubtless the most suited heir to Sagan’s tradition of enthusiasm and rigor in public science communication.
That wide-angle view of reality won a great deal of acclaim for Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, the 1980 television series on which the segment originally appeared. This concise lesson concerns itself not just with how we human beings came about, but how everything else came about as well.