S19E19: The Scientist | Carl Sagan, Part One
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Astronomer Carl Sagan was an ever-present voice in American culture for several decades in the latter half of the 20th century, sometimes commenting on topics far beyond the scope of his space science training. If you think that suggests some ego, you would be right, and that attribute or character flaw (depending on your perspective) certainly impacted his ability to enjoy happy marriages. In this first of a two-part story, we get into Carl's background and his first marriage, to pioneering biologist Lynn Margulis.
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| 0:05.5 | com.uk-Uk.woundary. That's audible.combe.uk slash wondering. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello, and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:18.4 | Stacey, you got the first part of a genuine two-parter going today, don't you? |
| 0:23.7 | I do. People of a certain age will remember astronomer and public science guy Carl Sagan, |
| 0:29.9 | particularly for his 1980 TV series Cosmos. He was a big player in space science during a time |
| 0:36.4 | when the U.S. was very focused on exploration |
| 0:38.8 | and made himself a very prominent voice in all of that. But he was also a difficult and arrogant |
| 0:44.7 | man, especially as a younger guy. And today we're going to talk about his doting mother's influence on |
| 0:51.1 | him and his fairly terrible first marriage. There's a lot of Amago in this story. |
| 0:56.6 | Indeed. |
| 0:57.5 | This weekend will be back with his ultimately fairly terrible second marriage, as well as |
| 1:02.4 | his third, which seems to have gone a little better. |
| 1:05.4 | But before we do, Alicia, is that a magic mirror I spy through my telescope? |
| 1:11.4 | The stars won't leave you wrong, Stacey, it certainly is. |
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