Dorion Sagan
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Dorion Sagan is an American
science writer, essayist, and theorist. He has written and co-authored many books on culture
, evolution
, and the history and philosophy of science
, most recently "The Sciences of Avatar: from Anthropology to Xenology" and "Death and Sex," which won first place at the 2010 New York Book Show in the general trade nonfiction category. His Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D.Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics
and life.
Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan
and biologist Lynn Margulis
. His younger brother is Jeremy Sagan
and his half-brother is Nick Sagan
.
United States
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science writer, essayist, and theorist. He has written and co-authored many books on culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
, evolution
Evolution
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...
, and the history and philosophy of science
Philosophy of science
The philosophy of science is concerned with the assumptions, foundations, methods and implications of science. It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth...
, most recently "The Sciences of Avatar: from Anthropology to Xenology" and "Death and Sex," which won first place at the 2010 New York Book Show in the general trade nonfiction category. His Into the Cool, co-authored with Eric D.Schneider, is about the relationship between non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a branch of thermodynamics that deals with systems that are not in thermodynamic equilibrium. Most systems found in nature are not in thermodynamic equilibrium; for they are changing or can be triggered to change over time, and are continuously and discontinuously...
and life.
Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books...
and biologist Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is best known for her theory on the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory, which is now generally accepted...
. His younger brother is Jeremy Sagan
Jeremy Sagan
Jeremy Sagan is an American computer programmer. He is the founder of Sagan Technology and author of Metro: an audio, MIDI and video sequencer for Apple Macintosh computers....
and his half-brother is Nick Sagan
Nick Sagan
Nick Sagan is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the science fiction novels Idlewild, Edenborn, and Everfree, and his screen credits include episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager...
.
Awards and honors
- First place, Silent Mora Ring 122 International Brotherhood of MagiciansInternational Brotherhood of MagiciansInternational Brotherhood of Magicians is the world's largest organization for professional and amateur magicians, with approximately 15,000 members worldwide. The headquarters is in St...
- 1974 - EdPress Excellence in Educational Journalism Award, Nonprofit National - 1986
- Humana Scholarship - Centre CollegeCentre CollegeCentre College is a private liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of approximately 16,000 in Boyle County south of Lexington, KY. Centre is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders, with whom it maintains a loose...
Danville, Kentucky (2003) - Lindisfarne Fellowship - LindisfarneLindisfarneLindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is also known as Holy Island and constitutes a civil parish in Northumberland...
(2008 –) - Advisory Board - Sputnik Inc (2009 –)
External links
- Sputnik Observatory Interviews
- Amazon author page
- Biography page, The Edge FoundationEdge Foundation, Inc.The Edge Foundation, Inc. is an organization of science and technology intellectuals created in 1988 as an outgrowth of The Reality Club. Its motto is 'To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together and have them ask...
- Online audio interview with Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
- Into the Cool website
- "Second Nature" (article)
- Letters (discussing "Turing Gaia," the natural basis of teleology) to Olivia Judson “Wild Side” column, topic “Heavy Weather,” The New York Times