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.
Dec 31st
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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.
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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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. :)
Dec 28th
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Anonymous asked: Just interested in knowing the man behind the blog
Dec 28th
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Anonymous asked: What's your name?
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Happy Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton.
Reason’s Greetings, y’all.
Dec 26th
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“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real...”
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (via tamebabyparrots)
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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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)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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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 ...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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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...
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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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 ...
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Neil deGrasse Tyson AMA on Reddit →
Currently up
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Excuse me, but what is this shit? No. Just no.
Dec 17th
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Carl Sagan: Reason's Greetings Gifts →
Just in time for the Holidays :)
Dec 17th
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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.
Dec 16th
“In looking out upon the universe, we forget that the universe is looking at...”
– Alan Watts (via weirdbuddha)
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die.”
– Carl Sagan (via miceandmagic)
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Astrology.
ohmysagan: Don’t know whether to lol or cry.
Dec 14th
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