This week has been all about the stars and anniversaries, so a good combination of the two is releasing an episode all about the PBS program Cosmos on the anniversary of its creator and host, Carl Sagan’s, birthday.  This is the EPS Podcast and I’m glad to have you listening.
 
 James Maynard, the host of the Cosmic Companion Podcast, draws a direct line from watching “Cosmos” when it first aired in 1980 to his career as a writer, astronomer, historian and scientist.  And since I can do the same with another PBS series that came out 10 years later, Ken Burns’s The Civil War , we made for a perfect pair of analysts of how a documentary series can be looked at as a primary source of its era.