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Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker address their television audience on Aug. 20, 1986 at their PTL Ministry in Fort Mill, S.C. AP Photo/Lou Krasky

How Jim Bakker became the Johnny Carson of Christian TV

John Wigger, University of Missouri-Columbia

Bakker’s ‘PTL Club’ existed at the nexus of evangelical Christianity and American pop culture.
Carl Sagan at his Cornell University laboratory in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1974. Santi Visalli, Inc./Archive Photos via Getty Images

Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ‘Cosmos’

Jean-Luc Margot, University of California, Los Angeles

On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator.

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