Dorion Sagan - Air date: 12-17-07

Dorion Sagan is the author of numerous articles and sixteen books translated into eleven languages, including Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (with Eric D. Schneider, 2005) and Up from Dragons: Evolution of Human Intelligence (with John Skoyles, 2002). His What is Life? (with Lynn Margulis) was chosen (with works by Billie Holiday, Shakespeare, and others) as one of fifty "mind-altering masterpieces" by the Utne Reader. Sagan's essays are included in collections edited by Richard Dawkins and E. O. Wilson. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts--Amherst with a degree in history and has interests in philosophy and literature. Reviewing Sagan's Microcosmos in the New York Times Book Review, Melvin Konner wrote: "This admiring reader of Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, and Stephen Jay Gould has seldom, if ever, seen such a luminous prose style in a work of this kind." Sagan has written for The New York Times,The New York Times Book Review,Wired,The Skeptical Inquirer,The Smithsonian,The Ecologist, Omni, Natural History, and many others.

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[quosmo1]

the interviewer never shuts the fuck up! we are here to listen to dorion not this twat.

[redice1024]

Not as good as Carl Sagan

[unburrito]

The rude incompetent's way: If you won't or think you can't level your wits up, just push the others' down.

Dorion's "mmh" and "Mhmms" at 13:00 were just too much for me.

But sadly not for Mr. Channer.

[fosterch]

Holy shit Dorian, use some H on the eyes.

[3rifily]

its pronounced extraordinAIR!

geez dude!

[wsmith49]

This is the poorest job of interviewing I have ever had the misfortune to endure. Perhaps somewhere on the web there is a non-arrogant, non-icompetent interview with this important and interesting individual?

[powderthemonkey]

lol

[themountainviewguy]

Dorian

[threelegduck]

i used to smoke weed with tonio sagan

[kjg28]

Wow, let Sagan talk! Sheesh!