Category: Cosmos
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 10 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The last of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11), three and four (blog 2 of 11), five and…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 9 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first 14 of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11), three and four (blog 2 of 11), five…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 8 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first 12 of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11), three and four (blog 2 of 11), five…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 7 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first 12 of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11), three and four (blog 2 of 11), five…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 6 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first ten of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11), three and four (blog 2 of 11), five…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 5 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first eight of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11), three and four (blog 2 of 11), five…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 4 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first of six of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11), three and four (blog 2 of 11)…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 3 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The first of four of Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — are available here – one and two (blog 1 of 11) and three and four (blog 2 of…
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Hope lives here.
Hope vs Cope vs Mope: Hope – We’ll build a better future. The future is bright. Cope – Everything was better in the past. We need to slow down. Mope – Everything’s bad. We’re all going to die very soon. Credit: @_brightmirror (Twitter) “Value the future on a timescale longer than your own.” Richard Dawkins,…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 2 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Continuing with Sagan’s twenty most common and perilous pitfalls — many of which are rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — with examples of each in action. One and two (blog 1 of 11) are here. The third and fourth of these…
Stargazing Guy 