Carl Sagan | The Sun Magazine

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan was an astronomer and author who cofounded the Planetary Society, a nonprofit organization for space exploration. He died in 1996.

— From July 2021
The Dog-Eared Page

Mr. X

One Scientist’s Experience With Cannabis

The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

July 2021
The Dog-Eared Page

A Pale Blue Dot

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great, enveloping cosmic dark.

October 2019
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