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Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995, remains an essential read for anyone who considers themselves a critical thinker, says Leah Crane

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

“No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.” ― Carl Sagan

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" -- Carl Sagan Animation is fully crafted by human hands.. all credits to sonvapritch for the hardwork.

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan

“Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.” — Carl Sagan

We are so, so small. #Artemis

Write them out anyway, because bad writing can usually be fixed through revision and practice. Most of writing well happens through practice. It's a skill as much as if not more than a talent. Most people could write decently well, given time and effort.

Trump wants you to believe he’s more powerful than he is - and that you have less power than you do. Tomorrow, millions of Americans will gather to remind one another where power actually resides in this democracy: with us, the people.

A Reminder from Carl

Mara Wilson ( the kid actress in Matilda!) at the @standupforscience.bsky.social rally in LA quoting Carl Sagan 🧪🌎🪸🌊🦠🧬

It was an honor and delight to see the Voyager Golden Record make it to a Pixar movie but this cowardly flattening of Elio is shameful.

A fifth grader's letter to my dad...

“Many persons have inquired: Where is the goal of mankind? [...] Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars. [...] A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.” — Albert Einstein

“Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.” — Carl Sagan

"He taught us to persevere, to look for the hope running beneath the surface of terrible events...even when hope seemed preposterous." "Lessons Rod Serling Taught Us" ~Steve Trimm

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

ICE’s actions tear families apart, intimidate communities, & undermine the conditions that make education, research, healthcare, & public trust possible. We’re calling on scientists to join the general anti-ICE strike in Minnesota on January 23rd.

"Human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake." ~ Rod Serling

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

On 13 February 1990, from a distance of 6.4 billion km, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft turned around and photographed our homeworld. About halfway up on the right side is a tiny speck of light, about one pixel across. "That's home. That's us. A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." —Carl Sagan

"...No matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. Our potential for tenacity and optimism continues..." ~ Rod Serling

what the symbols on the voyager golden record mean ✨

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Carl Sagan on star wars in 1978.

"Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated." -Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium

"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness." -Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

In the 1995 book The Demon Haunted World, Carl Sagan warned that the US was turning its back on science, and that the consequences would be dire. Near the start of their new book, Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez argue that what the astronomer feared is now coming to pass.

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me). www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

"The bamboozle has captured us.”

We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces.

#bookreview 📚💙 📚🪐 Fan of? - Figuring out what is really going on - Cliques - YA SF - Fighting the power Try @nicksagan.bsky.social's Idlewild nicksaganprojects.com/works-2/nove... An amnesiac young man has to navigate a peculiar high school with the knowledge that somebody just tried to kill him.

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Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species

Carl Sagan's insights were far ahead of his time. 🎥 : made from em_curr (Tiktok)

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

“For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.” - Rod Serling

“In the last few millennia we have made astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.”

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. - Carl Sagan

"There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." - Carl Sagan