Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Episode 1)

Today let's look back to one of the most popular and classic science documentaries of all time - Cosmos with Carl Sagan. But firstly let's look at some history behind this charming documentary.

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage is a thirteen-part television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steve Soter, with Sagan as presenter. It covered a wide range of scientific themes, including the origin of life and our place in the universe.

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Ever since 1978 when Cosmos was produced it became famous for groundbreaking special effects and memorable soundtracks (including music by Vangelis). However, the real show stealer was Carl Sagan, who is one of only a few scientists who were truly popular outside the world of science. He was a truly amazing scholar who had an extraordinary passion for science and a talent to pass it to the wide audience.

The show had 13 episodes covering a variety of subjects including planets, stars, universe formation, science in our society, evolution and others.

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Collection of TED Talks about Physics

So as you might have already noticed I'm expanding the video part of the blog. So I decided to add a collection of TED Talks about physics. For more TED Talks about science, medicine, technologies, economy and so much more check out the TED Talks youtube channel.

The Universe on a String by Brian Greene

Murray Gell Mann - Beuty and Truth in Physics

Garret Lessi - The New Beautiful Theory of Everything

Brian Cox What Really Goes On at The Large Hadron Collider

David Deutsch - What is Our Place in Cosmos

Scot Aaronson - Physics in the 21 Century

Janna Levin - The Sounds The Universe Makes

Stephen Hawking - Asking the Big Questions About the Universe

Brian Cox - Why We Need Explorers

Aaron O'Connell Visible Quantum Object

Garik Israelian - What's Inside a Star

Leonard Susskind - My Friend Richard Feynman

Patricia Burchat The Search for Dark Matter and Dark Energy

George Smooth - The Design of the Universe

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On the Nature of Time...

So lately I've stumbled upon this great website containing public domain docummentaries on various subjects in science. It contains a variety of physics docummentaries and lectures, usually a couple of decades old. The most interesting thing about these lectures is that old vintage feel that only old docummentaries have.









Thanks for checking this out! The link of the website with all this public domain stuff is here.

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