December 2011
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Carl Sagan's Ri Christmas Lectures 1977 →
project-argus:
Like a prequel to Cosmos, only with:
top hats,
tea time,
dances with proteins,
six-legged unicorns,
and Mars grabby hands.
You’ll like it, I think.
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When I actually got to use a Carl Sagan quote
(Having a discussion about religion)
Mom: Believing is an important part of being religious.
Me: But I don't want to believe. I want to know.
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Anonymous asked: I don't care what your name is. Every time I see happy smiling Carl Sagan on my dash, it makes me happy and my soul says "aaaaaah." Hope that's relevant. :)
Anonymous asked: Just interested in knowing the man behind the blog
Anonymous asked: What's your name?
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Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton.
Reason’s Greetings, y’all.
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Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real...
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (via tamebabyparrots)
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Science may be hard to understand. It may challenge cherished beliefs. When its...
– Carl Sagan in The Demon Haunted World (via l3li3l)
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Reddit: Best free online learning centers
Schools and Universities:
University of Reddit with corresponding subreddit
MIT Lectures
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Rice - Connexions
Utah State
Berkeley
Berkeley Part 2
Berkeley Part 3 (videos)
Stanford
Stanford Part 2 (videos)
Harvard
University of Sydney
University of Virginia
Stanford
Yale
Yale Part 2 (videos)
University of Washington CSE
University of Chicago
...
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Scientific illiteracy will send the human race to...
cwnl:
theashkaari:
Not a spiritual hell. Not an afterlife. A literal hell, here and now.
Human beings are resilient creatures. We have overcome every challenge. We have learnt to shape and control the environment to suite ourselves, but we can not continue down this path. We can not continue to insist that we have dominion over the Earth. We can not ignore the warning signs. We can not pick...
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Changing Climate Will Make Massive Shifts in... →
Climate change will alter the mix of vegetation on 49 percent of Earth’s land surface by the end of this century, scrambling and shifting existing ecosystems, according to a new study.
Researchers at NASA and the California Institute of Technology say the changing climate will also convert 37 percent of the world’s land ecosystems from one type — such as tundra, forest or grassland — into ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA on Reddit →
Currently up
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Excuse me, but what is this shit?
No. Just no.
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Carl Sagan: Reason's Greetings Gifts →
Just in time for the Holidays :)
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From Neil deGrasse Tyson's facebook page:
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Just an FYI: I might do another Reddit AMA session this weekend. Likely daytime Saturday. If so, I’ll confirm with a tweet 5minutes after it begins.
In looking out upon the universe, we forget that the universe is looking at...
– Alan Watts (via weirdbuddha)
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To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die.
– Carl Sagan (via miceandmagic)
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Astrology.
ohmysagan:
Don’t know whether to lol or cry.