Cosmosand the Clash Between Academic and Popular Science
Crawford delineate being a cathartic student when Cosmos aired , and then what it was like to be in the same section as Carl Sagan as a grad student : I started college around that time , toiling off as a physics major in a hothouse tech school that would presently be fictionally immortalized in the geek cinema classic Real Genius ( look it up , kids ) . We journeyman nerds were aware of “ Cosmos ” as a sort of cultural phenomenon but did n’t really appreciate the fact that science was starting to become a pop culture item ....