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Blue Dot

Best Of Blue Dot: Bearable Only Through Love: A conversation with Sasha Sagan

By Dave Schlom,
Matt Fidler
Published November 26, 2021 at 10:29 AM PST

Host Dave Schlom speaks with author, filmmaker, and producer Sasha Sagan, daughter of "Cosmos" co-writer Ann Druyan and astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan.

Sasha Sagan was only 14 when her father passed away in 1996 and his loss is central to the theme of her new book For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World.

Part love letter to her parents, the late astronomer and his partner in the creation of many books and the Cosmos TV series, Ann Druyan, and a guide to how rituals create meaning and structure in our lives, the book is a must-read for anyone familiar with the Sagan-Druyan enterprise.

Sasha Sagan

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Dave Schlom
Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.
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Matt Fidler
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.
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