Critically acclaimed author Sasha Sagan, the daughter of astronomer Carl Sagan, has launched a podcast that celebrates and challenges human rituals, traditions and norms from a cosmic attitude. Lighthearted banter is coupled with professional insights as Sasha unpacks our ideals and practices in discussions with excessive-profile actors, authors, pupils, and scientists, stated a press launch. She joins greater than one hundred creative professionals who write and convey unique content exclusively for OnlySky.
Speaking about the podcast, Sasha weighs in, “Many of our traditions are rooted in our relationship with our planet, our astronomy, or our biology, for example coming-of-age rituals and holidays targeted on the solstices and equinoxes. Other traditions are apparently random, byproducts of all but forgotten histories. I love exploring each sorts, seeking to see the matters we’ve achieved all our lives with sparkling eyes.
The visitors for season one encompass actor and style fashion designer Nicole Richie, technology communicator Bill Nye, actors Katie Lowes and Adam Shapiro, actor Troian Bellisario, creator, actor, and activist Brandon Kyle Goodman and novelist Kiley Reid, amongst many others.
Sasha credits her parents for inspiring her on many degrees. “My mother and father, the astronomer Carl Sagan and creator-manufacturer Ann Druyan, encouraged me, and endless others, to look the Earth as one small planet in a great universe. We don’t recognise if there’s existence somewhere else, however from early early life the concept of how we might seem to extraterrestrials became fodder for each profoundly stimulating dialogue and severe laughter in our domestic.”
Each episode begins with a description of a acquainted custom from the point of view of an extraterrestrial. Sasha then investigates the custom through the private and the general with a famous thinker or artist who shares their specific, regularly complicated relationship with the lifestyle. In the third segment, Sasha interviews a scholar to higher apprehend the roots of such extraordinary customs. “Sasha and her visitors do an extraordinary process exploring how a herbal attitude modifications the whole lot, from our place inside the universe to the which means of a single existence,” says Shawn Hardin, Founder and CEO of OnlySky Media.Arooj Aftab is set to make her return to the Grammys this 12 months, now not handiest as a nominee however additionally as a performer. The Mohabbat singer took to her Instagram to announce on Friday that she could be performing at the Grammy Awards ultimate ceremony.
She shared a put up featuring info of her overall performance. The caption read, “I without a doubt can’t wait to play my Grammy-nominated jam Udhero Na presenting Anoushka Shankar along with her stay for you on the Grammys.” She requested her fans to song into the live performance, set to be held on February 5 at 12:30pm Pakistan time. The occasion will be available for streaming at the Recording Academy’s website and its reliable YouTube channel.
Aftab is nominated, another time, inside the ‘Best Global Music Performance’ class for her unmarried Udhero Na at the Grammy Awards. Aftab’s Udhero Na will compete for the Best Global Music Performance Award along Matt B and Eddy Kenzo’s Gimme Love, Burna Boy’s Last ultimate, Rocky Dawuni, Blvk H3ro’s Neva Bow Down and Wouter Kellerman, Zakes Bantwini, Nomcebo Zikode’s Bayethe.
The singer, who made history final 12 months by means of becoming the primary Pakistani to win a Grammy, managed to cozy the nomination in November. While expressing her excitement about Udhero Na bagging a nod, she had stated, “Oh my God! Udhero Na has been nominated for a Grammy. Congratulations to me and to Anoushka Shankar, Maeve Gilchrist and Nadje Noordhuis.”