The Many Worlds of Ann Druyan: Matriarch of the Cosmos (#055)

   Ann Druyan has brought the universe to millions around
the world. The wife of the late Carl Sagan, Ann is a renowned
science communicator and producer/writer and co-creator of the
upcoming series Cosmos: Possible Worlds. She is the author of the
companion book of the same name.  She is an Emmy and
Peabody award-winning writer and producer. She co-created and wrote
the 1980 TV series Cosmos with Carl Sagan, whom she later married.
She also co-created, wrote, produced, and directed the follow up
series, 2014’s Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and 2020’s Cosmos:
Possible Worlds. She was also creative director for NASA’s Voyager
Interstellar Message Project and her brain waves are part of the
golden record that has traveled outside our solar system. Druyan
discusses her fascinating voyage through the most mysterious
phenomena in the cosmos. We discuss her family’s remarkable role as
science ambassadors including not only her marriage to Carl Sagan,
but her remarkable daughter Sasha Sagan who is continuing their
role as the First Family of the Cosmos! Ann talked about her and
Carl’s collaboration on the original Cosmos series, their multiple
books, and Voyager’s famous golden record. She also shares lessons
on love, parenthood, and the importance of science
communication.  In addition to her award-winning writing and
directing, she has an asteroid named after her, 4970 Druyan (which
is in companion orbit with asteroid 2709 Sagan).  Her brain
waves were recorded onto Voyager’s golden record that is traveling
outside our solar system. In fact, she is the first guest on INTO
THE IMPOSSIBLE who can say she already has a billion year time
capsule in response to my standard question about monoliths! Five
billion years, in fact, as that’s how long the golden record was
designed to last.  00:07:37 Ann Druyan has brought
science to millions. 00:15:42 Druyan and Sagan’s love is part
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