{"id":1316,"date":"2006-12-20T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2006-12-20T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T19:37:44","slug":"celebrating-sagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Sagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Carl Sagan<\/a>. By happy coincidence, I was just getting into being a precocious little know-it-all when Cosmos<\/a> came out (1980). So, I got to watch each episode, first run. And then I watched them in re-runs over and over. And then I got the book<\/a>, which covers the same stuff as TV series, but with a bit more depth, and I read it over and over again. And then I was the smartest little ten year old in my class! Sure, as a ten year old, some of it was way over my head, but I did my best to remember as much of it as I could, even if I didn't understand it. For example, I learned that ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate<\/a>) is the molecule our cells use to store and transmit energy - even though I couldn't make any sense of the reaction diagrams in the book's appendix. I learned about I learned about near-light-speed travel, even though I still can't get my head around relativity. I learned about evolution, astronomy, cosmology, physics, biology, mathematics and history. I learned things from that show that none of my high school or college classes even approached. I can't imagine what I'd be like if it wasn't for Cosmos getting me excited about science. Turtle-necked sweaters will always remind me of Sagan. The book will always be on my bookshelf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Carl Sagan. By happy coincidence, I was just getting into being a precocious little know-it-all when Cosmos came out (1980). So, I got to watch each episode, first run. And then I watched them in re-runs over and over. And then I got the book, which covers the same stuff as TV series, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}