{"id":2950,"date":"2014-04-25T00:34:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T07:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2014-08-27T20:21:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T03:21:37","slug":"cosmos-finds-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/04\/25\/cosmos-finds-new-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan&#8217;s Cosmos finds new life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Carl Sagan with Viking. <em>(photo by\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Jet Propulsion Laboratory)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carl Sagan fans old and new have been gazing at their televisions in awe as host Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson\u2019s resurrection of the science epic <em>Cosmos<\/em> takes them on a journey from the Big Bang, to microscopic one-celled organisms, to the ascent of man, to beyond the stars and planets. The return of Cosmos \u2013 which launched in March and runs for 13 episodes on the Fox network, ending June 2 \u2013 provides an opportune time to remember Sagan, the show\u2019s Jewish creator.<\/p>\n<p>An American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and author, Sagan was born to into a family of Reform Jews. According to science writer William Poundstone, author of <em>Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos<\/em>, Sagan\u2019s family celebrated the High Holidays and his parents made sure that he knew Jewish traditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth of his parents instilled in him this drive to get ahead in America, and that is something he kept all his life,\u201d said Poundstone in an interview. \u201cIt may have been one factor in this idea that he not only wanted to be a successful astronomer, but [also] to write books, to become a celebrity and an entrepreneur. His mother particularly instilled that in him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jns.org\/latest-articles\/2014\/4\/17\/amid-cosmos-return-remembering-famed-jewish-astronomer-carl-sagan#.U1gWqSjH3Qc\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at jns.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Sagan with Viking. (photo by\u00a0Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Carl Sagan fans old and new have been gazing at their televisions in awe as host Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson\u2019s resurrection of the science epic Cosmos takes them on a journey from the Big Bang, to microscopic one-celled organisms, to the ascent of man, to beyond the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[787],"tags":[4356,4355,4357],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv-film","tag-a-life-in-the-cosmos","tag-carl-sagan","tag-neil-degrasse-tyson"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}