Questioning and following the evidence is the pathway to the future: Sasha Sagan
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2020-08-26

Sasha Sagan is my guest on episode 19 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
 
Sasha has worked as a television producer, filmmaker, editor, writer, and speaker in the U.S. and abroad. Her essays and interviews on death, history, and ritual through a secular lens have appeared in The Cut, O, the Oprah Magazine, Literary Hub, Mashable, Violet Book, and beyond.  She regularly speaks on ways science can inform our celebrations and how we mark the passage of time, inspired in part by the work of her parents, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. 

Sasha is the author of For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World, an exploration of the marvels of nature, as revealed by science, which require no faith in order to be believed. The book is an exercise in skepticism without cynicism, told through memoir and social history.  Kirkus Reviews called it “Profound, elegantly written ruminations on the exquisite splendors of life.” Inverse named Sasha one of their Future 50, “a group of 50 people who will be forces of good in the 2020s”. 

She lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband and daughter. You can follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/sashasagan and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sashasagan/.
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00:00 - Questioning and following the evidence is the pathway to the future: Sasha Sagan
00:52 - Introduction of Inside Ideas guest Sasha Sagan
02:44 - Know you from your book For Small Creatures Such as We
05:00 - Influenced by parents Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan
07:20 - How do we process Death
08:00 - Cosmic Rituals
09:00 - Quote from Contact "the vastness is only bearable through Love"
11:49 - Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot
12:58 - Tiny Dot suspended in a Sunbeam
14:45 - Benificerarys of Random Chance
15:38 - Likelihood and chance of being born
17:28 - Earthling
21:15 - Diverse Circumstance Geneology
25:00 - Open Questions
26:18 - Discuss many religions
28:10 - How have you weathered the pandemic?
30:00 - Science is the way through hard times
31:00 - Science as a world view
33:00 - Questioning Authority
38:00 - Dystopian Futures
40:00 - Art comes from our Fears
41:30 - Desire to be in Nature
43:10 - Underlying Biological Events
47:00 - The Burning Question - WTF? What's the Future?
49:07 - Only clues we have are the past
50:30 - Tolerate Ambiguity 
52:00 - It is not too late!
55:50 - Mythology
57:30 - Do not take mythology too literally 
1:02:00 - We are all Star Stuff
1:04:40 - Symbiotic Earth
1:06:30 - What does a world that works for everyone look like for you?
1:07:40 - Same Educational Chance for Everyone
1:09:00 - Education brings us all further along
1:13:22 - Empowering Woman and Girls
1:14:30 - Sustainable Take Away
1:15:20 - Questioning and following the evidence
1:16:00 - Perspective of Pale Blue Dot
1:17:00 - Possible Children's Books
1:18:30 - Food Sustainability
1:21:25 - Food Waste is Exponential Waste
1:25:00 - Come back for an Update