Originally aired as Salon #231 of the Psychedelic Salon podcast. A recording of one of the last conversations Bruce Damer and Terence McKenna had at Terence's house, exploring virtual worlds and the future of consciousness.

Bruce Damer Today we are taking a slightly different tack and heading into the cyber world of Artificial Life, which may sound like a contradiction or may sound like life in the hectic Western world these days. While this field may be controversial to old-line scientists, of late […]

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Sagan dictating a draft NASA exobiology grant proposal — discusses amino acids, tholins, and methane in Titan's atmosphere; representative of how Sagan composed first drafts.

Sagan's commencement speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on planetary science, scientific literacy, ozone depletion, and nuclear proliferation.