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  World Science Festival Sends Greetings from Earth
  Claire L. Evans created this moving introduction to this year's World Science Festival.
  by bryanmckay / on Aug 10, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “carl sagan”

 

• This is What Carl Sagan Thought About Aliens

  
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  World famous astrophysicist , author, and TV show host Carl Sagan was unquestionably one of the greatest minds in science. His words, whether from his books or beautifully narrated science advocacy show Cosmos, are still invaluable to every human. If there was someone who championed the cosmic perspective even ...
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• Carl Sagan on Science and Spirituality

  
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  “The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.” The friction between science and religion stretches from Galileo’s famous letter to today’s leading thinkers . And yet we’re seeing that, for all its capacity for ignorance , religion might have ...
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• HBO Making Sci-Fi Series The Spark

  
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  Remember how “good” genre shows seemed like they would never return to television? Cable is going where free tv will not. True Blood exceeded expectations. The Walking Dead is a [...]
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• Magic Books on Health and Life

  
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    “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking ...
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• Carl Sagan’s Beautiful Words About the Moon Landing

  
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  Landing on the moon wasn’t just a nationalistic venture, but a triumph for the whole of the human species . We, at this step in our evolution of life on this planet, sent members of our family to the rock that has floated in our skies since the formation of Earth. It’s difficult to imagine something more ...
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• The 55th Edition of the Venice Biennale di Venezia – Highlights of the Must Sees Part One

  
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  Skipping past the weather, the attitudes and being stranded on one side of the Arsenale exhibition site with no shuttle available to come back, mixed with an array of parties and events staged during the 4 preview days of the 55th edition of the International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
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• Cosmos

  
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  I am getting into science books. At school, I hated science, but I think that was mainly because I had not very inspiring teachers. I didnt get excited by bunsen burners and forceps and those safety goggles you had to wear. Also, I turned up an hour late for my Science GCSE, meaning I ended up getting an F. Anyway, my ...
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• The important role of science through history.

  
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  Introduction Science plays a key role in today’s society, but the thing is many people don’t realize this. There are even people who don’t “believe” in science. Yet the very reason I am able to write this on a computer is thanks to science. Without it we would go nowhere, and in this document I will look ...
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• Final thought for the night.

  
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  I will never forget when I first became fascinated with science. I remember marveling at the world that microscopes and telescopes revealed, while devouring books on animals and animal behaviors just as soon as I checked them out from the school library. Accepting the simple explanation for complex things was never ...
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• The Cosmic Perspective and Your Impossible Ego

  
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  If you were Voyager I right now, you probably couldn’t even see the Earth . We’re so tiny that even just a trip to the edge of our solar system vanishes us from sight. That’s the reality of living on this planet. In this Big Think talk from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson , he illustrates this factual ...
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• On Our Radar – Arizona State Rep. Juan Mendez, Secular Humanist, vs Arizona State Rep. Steve Smith, Christian Taliban

  
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  Democratic State Rep. Juan Mendez opened a session of the Arizona House this week with a quote from Carl Sagan instead of the customary prayer. Republican State Rep. Steve Smith refused to allow an atheist’s right to give the House Invocation to go unchallenged. Today, the rights of non-believers are On Our Radar. ...
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• Do You Have A Story to Tell? Here Are the Digital Tools You’ll Need

  
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  Wade Roush Back in January I got an invitation out of the blue to give a 1-hour talk at the Palo Alto Research Center —the Xerox-owned lab better known as PARC. The invitation was completely open-ended. The full extent of PARC’s guidance was “we think you would have a lot of interesting things to share.” ...
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• The meaning of a dot

  
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  At a photography club meeting last Saturday, a friend showed a dark, unusual image at the end of a presentation. I squinted at the screen, wondering what he could possibly be showing us, as Jeff asked the group if we recognized the photo. A few people did. It’s Earth, he explained — our home. A “Pale Blue ...
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• Openly atheist lawmaker asked to deliver the opening prayer for the Arizona House of Representatives. Does something awesome instead.

  
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  Courtesy of the Phoenix Times :   An atheist state lawmaker tasked with delivering the opening prayer for this afternoons session of the House of Representatives asked that people not bow their heads.  Democratic Representative Juan Mendez, of Tempe, instead spoke about his "secular humanist tradition" and even ...
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• It’s True: We Are the Universe Contemplating Itself

  
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  Our connection with the cosmos is so profoundly beautiful, how can it not evoke a constant appreciation of being alive? The greatest scientists have given the reasons to be happy: The atoms of our bodies were forged in the center of stars, we’ve survived evolution over the course of an unfathomable amount of time, ...
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