Category: humanity
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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…
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Pitfalls of Common Sense: courtesy of Carl Sagan – blog 1 of 11
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark At the end of my last blog on Sagan’s baloney detection kit, Sagan admonishes against the twenty most common and perilous ones — many rooted in our chronic discomfort with ambiguity — with examples of each in action. The first two of these…
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Carl Sagan’s “baloney detection kit” – blog 10 of 10
– Carl Sagan’s Fine Art of Baloney Detection, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark The opening quote, from Carl Sagan, for this series of blogs was: The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science. Science can be hard (can…
Stargazing Guy 