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Dorion Sagan discusses his new book “Cosmic Apprentice”

Kevin Barrett

Wed.  5/1/13, 3-5 pm Central,  American Freedom Radio  (archived here.) Special – two full hours with Dorion Sagan!   Call-in: 218-339-8525 In his terrific new book Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science (University of Minnesota Press) Dorion Sagan quotes David Bohm: “Science is the search for truth whether we like it or not.” In other words, scientists are truthers. Unfortunately, few of them are as courageous – or as interesting – as Dorion, who mines the rich gradient separating scientific truth from human meaning better than anyone. It seems that Dorion has inherited his father Carl Sagan’s talent for…

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Sex and Death/Death and Sex: TJ Radio Special today with Tyler Volk and Dorion Sagan!

Kevin Barrett

Truth Jihad Radio Wed. 5/25/11, 1-3 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Call-in number: (402) 237-2525 or post your questions to my Facebook page. Special “Sex and Death” show with science writers Tyler Volk and Dorion Sagan, authors of Death and Sex (or was that Sex and Death ?) Any way you flip it, this is one of the most fascinating and provocative (and sexiest and deathiest) science books I’ve read…partly because it isn’t just a science book. Volk’s exploration of the biological meaning of death, like Sagan’s of sex, also explores some of the many social constructions surrounding…

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