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VISIONS OF A HOPEFUL FUTURE

American science communicator Ann Druyan famously created the 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage and the movie Contact with her husband, Carl Sagan. She was creative director of the Voyager Golden Records – two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977 – which contain a recording of her brain waves, and has been an advocate for nuclear disarmament and marijuana law reform. In 2014, , the sequel to , screened in 180 countries. Now, has arrived on National Geographic.

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