All Things Great and Small (Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still): Cosmos Episode 6 Recap
“There are more atoms in your eye than there are stars in all the galaxies of the known universe.” We’ve spent a lot of time thinking...
Hiding in the Light: Cosmos Episode 5 recap
Light and dark have always been powerful metaphors for the truth and its counterpart, ignorance. Plato saw light as representing the...
Illusions (A Sky Full of Ghosts): Cosmos Episode 4 Recap
The cosmos as revealed by science is stranger than we ever could have imagined. “Seeing is not believing,” we are told from the episode's...
When Knowledge Conquered Fear: Cosmos Episode 3 Recap
We all enter this world with a baby’s big, bright, eyes, knowing nothing about the cosmos. “We’ve had to figure it all out for...
Campfire stories (Some of the Things That Molecules Do): Cosmos Episode 2 Recap
Campfires are where we tell stories: ghost stories, myths, tall tales, fables, and jokes. In the second episodes of Cosmos, Neil DeGrasse...
Standing Up in the Milky Way: Cosmos Episode 1 Recap
The first episode of Cosmos – A Spacetime Odyssey starts exactly where it should. This voyage through space and time, a tour of what we...
Welcome to Sosciety
The blog is back! After several years with just a trickle of blog output, I'm relaunching my personal blog. The old one, "The Culture...
