Ann Druyan: Yes. It was one of those astonishing things where you realize that maybe it's a little more nature than nurture than you'd like to think. That we even do science is a hopeful glimmer of mental health. "When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. Cloudflare Ray ID: 78bae9ed3bfd7495 Would you describe that scene? And yet our conception of our surroundings remains the disproportionate view of the still-small child. Ann Druyan is on Facebook. Everyone would have what they needed. Ann Druyan is a Peabody and Emmy-award winning writer, producer and director specializing in the communication of science. Sign up for updates, weekly tools, and exclusive opportunities to support space exploration. They all died of starvation at their desks. We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go. Im like many people in my audience, intimidated by science until I was an adult, she shared with a chuckle. [21], In 2011, it was announced that Druyan would executive produce, co-write, and be one of the episodic directors for a sequel to Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, to be called Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which began airing in March 2014. I love our conversations. But for some reason, we are easily manipulated and deceived., What good is it to know of a danger if you dont do anything about it? We're almost two kinds of people. Because even if you live in a very nice house like I do, sooner or later the lies and the fires have got to burn you., Lethal heat waves, droughts, and runaway wildfires of unprecedented magnitude, check. Her book, " Cosmos: Possible Worlds ," was . Ms. Druyan, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., served as creative director for the Voyager discs. That thrills me. Scientific discovery isnt linear but some of the greatest discoveries are when someone ended up saying, Thats funny, the result isnt what we expected. We might not even be asking the right questions! The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. She also wrote and produced the PBS NOVA episode Confession of a Weaponeer, on the life of president Eisenhowers science advisor, George Kistiakowsky. [22][23] Episodes premiered on Fox and also aired on National Geographic Channel on the following night. Please check our Privacy Policy. Maybe its better not to know. Druyan is credited, with Carl Sagan, as the co-creator and co-producer of the 1997 feature film Contact. I'm just a hunter-gather of stories. Ann Druyan: Yes, there were echoes of Contact in that idea. Think of how unlikely that is. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality., And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?, If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic., Science has carried us to the gateway to the universe. His voice would have been helpful because as he aged, he grew as a person if every way. The second episode was just as awe-inspiring. Going hungry, pushing each other around, leaving bombs, breaking promises, leaving nothing. [34], Druyan is involved in multiple Breakthrough Initiatives. The pale blue dot is a silent rebuke to the fundamentalist, the nationalist, the militarist, the polluterto anyone who does not put above all other things the protection of our little planet and the life that it sustains in the vast cold darkness., This is one of the things I love about science. Mat Kaplan: Speaking of Carl, it's still thrilling to hear his voice joining Neil deGrasse Tyson's at critical junctures in the show. Contact your hosting provider letting them know your web server is not completing requests. Ann Druyan was born on 13 June 1949 in Queens, New York, USA. Ms. Ann Druyan is an author, writer and television producer. Carl said later that when he went to the fair he was very upset because his parents brought a brown bag lunch. That neednt prevent us from using the little we do know to search for and decrypt new languages of reality., To know what is real, one must subject ones ideas to the rigorous, error-correcting mechanism of science, seeking verification that can be expressed mathematically., the future depends on seeing reality clearly. Ann Druyan, photographed in New York City, Nov. 9, 2018. Faith and Family-Focused Reviews for Todays Media. [3][4][5] Druyan's early interest in math and science was, in her word, "derailed" when a junior high-school teacher ridiculed a question she asked about the universality of . [26], Druyan is a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims for the Paranormal (CSICOP). After it won the Peabody Award, the third season of Cosmos became a reality five years later, and with it, Druyan had a special mission. Ms. Druyan is the author or co-author of several books, including Comet, and, most recently, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. Mat Kaplan: Ann Druyan, it is a pleasure and an honor to welcome you back to Planetary Radio. The Voyager Golden Record is available in CD form, entitled Murmurs of Earth. Welcome back. Ann Druyan was born on June 13, 1949 in Queens, New York, USA. In the late 1970s, she became the Creative Director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, which produced the golden discs affixed to both the Voyager1 and Voyager2 spacecraft. And of course, Sasha was the perfect person to play Rachel and bring her back to life. I'm sure most of what we all hold dearest and cherish most, believing at this very moment, will be revealed at some future time to be merely a product of our age and our history and our understanding of reality. Ann returns to tell us about the show and her new companion book of the same name. 3. Some of us see it on the evening news or read about it in the morning paper. This essay is drawn from her new book, Cosmos . And that brings me back to Einstein's opening of the New York World's Fair. It's up to us to awaken to what scientists have been telling us for 70 or 100 years about our climate, about our environment, and about biodiversity. With a cast of a hundred, we created that 2039 World's Fair in which some of the daunting problems that we face now have been dealt with and we're ready to move further out into the cosmos. You know, this series is the work of 987 people. An Error 522 means that the request was able to connect to your web server, but that the request didn't finish. That was very inspiring to me. When Ann Druyan met her future husband, the late astronomer Carl Sagan, at a dinner party at Nora Ephron's New York City home circa 1974, she knew little of his growing reputation as a scientist . I think the information itself is empowering and goosebump-raising. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. It takes us back not just to the previous seasons in this incarnation of Cosmos, but back to the beginning and your partnership with Carl. [36], She is a member of the advisory board of The Carl Sagan Institute. I mean, nobody's going to work for less than a grad student. What I love about science is that it demands of us a tolerance for ambiguity. [43], In November 2007, Druyan was awarded the title of "Humanist Laureate" by the International Academy of Humanism. [49] The asteroid 4970 Druyan, which is in a companion orbit with asteroid 2709 Sagan named after Druyan's late husband, is named after Druyan. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. She previously was a director with New York Childrens Health Fund, a project that provides mobile pediatric care to homeless and disadvantaged children in more than half-a dozen cities. They pretended the science was unsettled and stalled for precious years., However, he never understood why anyone would want to separate science, which is just a way of searching for what is true, from what we hold sacred, which are those truths that inspire love and awe., What distant star had to explode to seed our world with inspiration?, This is the essence of emergence: tiny units of matter operating collectively to become something much more than themselves, to enable the cosmos to know itself., Wed love your help. Your role in space exploration starts now. We are supported primarily by donations from families such as yours. It was part of his lifelong campaign to make the revelations of science as accessible as possible to all of us. The golden records traveling aboard the Voyager aircraft include an hour long recording of the brainwaves of Ann Druyan, the executive producer and writer of COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey. Ice geysers could spew alien microbes into space from Enceladus, New experiment may challenge a key principle of life on early Mars, A new lightweight instrument could directly find life on Europa or Mars, By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. She co-wrote the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos, hosted by Carl Sagan, whom she married in 1981. Adam and Eve have no childhood. Mat Kaplan: We're almost out of time, but let me just say that the book is equally wonderful. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan got engaged over the phone, and before that phone call had never been anything more than professional acquaintances. [9] In the segment, Druyan explained her insistence that Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" be included on the Golden Record, saying: "Johnny B. Goode, rock and roll, was the music of motion, of moving, getting to someplace you've never been before, and the odds are against you, but you want to go. And that is the dream that I hold in my heart for our civilization. And some of us get hurt. Our leaders lie to us chronically. And how could that have happened, you know? It was actually Einstein's first words at the opening of the fair that inspired me to write the series and the book. In this moment of very low human self-esteem, it's a reminder of what we can do if we work together, refuse to be manipulated, and be in any way driven off the path for a better world. Back in 2003, Druyan reflected on her nearly 20-year relationship with Sagan for The Skeptical Inquirer. Ann Druyan: Mat, it's always a pleasure to talk with you. June 1, 1981 - December 20, 1996 (his death, 2 children), Cosmic Journey: The Voyager Interstellar Mission and Message. The creative director of the Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecrafts, Ann Druyan revisits humanity's mixtape for . These golden phonograph records affixed to the Voyager1 and Voyager2 spacecraft are now beyond the outermost planets of the solar system, and Voyager1 has entered interstellar space. He used his science to see clearly and to call attention to not only opportunities and wonders, but also looming dangers. She was co-writer, along with her late husband Carl Sagan, of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning television series COSMOS, and served as creative director of the NASA project to design a complex message consisting of music, images and ideas for possible alien civilizations that was placed aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar spacecraft. Druyan calls him a dean of visual effects, someone they should not have been able to afford but like dozens of others, worked generously to make Cosmos a labor of love. And I even know some of the stories that I want to tell in it. That was Voyager." Heres an excerpt via Goodreads but fair warning, get the tissues ready: In writing this moving tribute for her husband, Druyans words perfectly captures why Sagan remains so beloved to this day. In the late 1970s, she became the Creative Direct I stood 3 feet away from it during the entire show. She is probably best-known as the last wife of Carl Sagan, and co-author of the, Carl Sagan, Immanuel Velikovsky, Erich Anton Paul von Dniken, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Each disc held galactic instructions on how to locate Earth, plus pictures, music and sounds of animals and nature. The scientific approach to nature and my understanding of love are the same: Love asks us to get beyond the infantile projections of our personal hopes and fears, to embrace the others reality. [13], In 2000, Druyan, together with Steve Soter, co-wrote Passport to the Universe, the inaugural planetarium show for the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Natural History Museum's Hayden Planetarium. A few days before, she and Carl Sagan professed their love to each other. When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to meit still sometimes happensand ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. Author Ann Druyan discusses her late husband Carl Sagan and the film she co-produced, "Contact." Author Peter Balakian examines the Armenian genocide in 1915 by the Ottoman Turks and shares his book, "Black Dog of Fate, A Memoir." People in this video David HalberstamDavid BroderAnn DruyanPeter BalakianJules Witcover Category That science and art, not at odds with each other, not one looking down on the other, but working togetherthese 2 great powers of humanitywill join together to create a future that is not only livable but thrilling. Ten years ago this week, the popular scientist Carl Sagan died, but his work and legacy live on. He dreamed that peasant children and the children of the poor would become scientists and he founded 400 scientific institutionsone of them was his own institute where he, after expeditions around the world to 5 continents, gathered the mother seeds of our plants. View our Privacy Policy. Could you talk about that? Its not that what we thought before was wrong but its another horizon of knowledge., Science doesnt persecute people who disagree but grants pious rewards if they turn out to be right. 2022 Giving Company Accessibility Statement Privacy Policy. Ann Druyan: That's really true. Every time a new issue of National Geographic arrived when I was a little girl, my mother and I would look through every page. In 2000, Druyan co-founded Cosmos Studios, Inc, with Joseph Firmage. Every beat of my heart loves and misses him, Druyan shared. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. It has an emotional resonance to me that they have been such great partners and that they are distributing the series in so many countries around the world. 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