Category: Science
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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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Atom puns & jokes 2/n
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows more ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! Don’t trust atoms; they make up everything. PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely, at the same time, and think about the…
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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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Summer evening talk – “The Stars and the Planets … Stargazing for All” – 16 August 2023 @ 7:30 pm
Portswood Library, ‘Under the Dome’, Portswood Road, Southampton, United Kingdom, SO17 2NG PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely, at the same time, and think about the Cosmos. In the meantime, take care of yourself and if you can, someone else, too, because as…
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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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Atom puns & jokes 1/n
Everyone loves a pune (or pun) or joke. Here follows the first of some ‘atom’ puns/jokes – enjoy or groan or meh. More to follow! Professor: what do you know about atoms?Me: very littleProfessor: aside from that? PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely,…
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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…
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Carl Sagan’s “baloney detection kit” – blog 9 of 10
– Carl Sagan’s Fine Art of Baloney Detection, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Here is the ninth, and final, tool. Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much. Consider the grand idea that our Universe and everything in…
Stargazing Guy 