Did you know we're essentially all #STARS? That is to say, we’re actually the children of stars!
How does it feel to have stars for parents? 
https://bigthink.com/the-past/how-we-discovered-were-all-made-of-star-stuff/
(You can skip to the last paragraph :)
If you are ever wanting something good to watch, The Royal Institute’s youtube page has a large array of information, right down to Carl Sagan lectures from 1977. Well worth checking out.
https://www.youtube.com/TheRoyalInstitution/videos
#Sagan #CarlSagan
Re-reading Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World—a masterful defence of science, scepticism, and democracy.
More relevant than ever in an age of misinformation.
If more people embraced his message, we’d have less paranoia, less blind faith, and a world driven by reason, curiosity, and open inquiry.
https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/reading-carl-sagan-in-the-age-of
Hoy se cumplen 35 años de esta imagen.
Este es el día de los enamorados que quiero celebrar yo.
Edit: sold!
It's on A4-size heavyweight art paper. £40 GBP, worldwide postage included. DM me if you want it!
Well, I am changing my name, so a
new #introduction seems apt...
I'm Raven!
#nurse 
#photography is cool, 
#Linux nerd 
#trans, #polyamory 
heckin #bi, 
#vegan, 
#leftist, 
star stuff (hail #carlsagan )
I'm #pdx based!
Starting the process of moving away from #meta owned platforms is going to be hard, and IDK how to get other folks on here, but I love this space more than Bluesky or anything else really.
I like using #Signal for comms and stories, so I guess that part is figured out.
Other interests I have...
#sewing
#rockclimbing
#webdesign (check out my #hugo theme: https://betterwebsites.dev)
#carfree inspired by @notjustbikes
#jiujitsu
#union activism
If any of that resonates with you, feel free to reach out!
My blog is: https://ravenwinters.org
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. ~ #CarlSagan #quotes #books
Critical thinking is important history proves this .
#InspirationalQuotes #Bluesky #Nostr #Mastodon #CarlSagan
And finally, we couldn’t help but reshare our @CultureDesk's post of this LitHub article in praise of reading and print. It has everything a person could need — references to Terry Pratchett, Carl Sagan, George Orwell and Sven Birkerts, and some extremely pithy writing of its own. "The ephemerality of the internet is attractive to entropy, for how much of what’s been written over the past few decades has all but vanished, our prodigious output a daily burning of the Library of Alexandria, while stone, papyrus, vellum, and paper can endure for centuries,” writes Ed Simon. “A printed book is a living animal with flesh of paper and ink of blood, so that compared to turning pages, mere scrolling is anemic.”
#Writing #Literature #Books @bookstodon #TerryPratchett #CarlSagan #GeorgeOrwell #SvenBirkerts #Culture
In honor of my hero Carl Sagan's birthday yesterday...a Sunday chillwave tune with his voice. "Synetheisia" from the "Inner Movies" Project.
Carl Sagan on the pain of animals
It’s barbaric to eat animals
On what would have been #CarlSagan’s 90th birthday, I remember teaching our scientific method course using his book “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”.
I remember the helpful bullshit detector he gave the world.
I remember his warnings about a society that embraces credulity and denies critical and scientific thinking.
I remember his grand view of the #Cosmos and our place in it.
Let’s celebrate with music quoting from his last interview.
https://www.seti.org/celebrating-carl-sagan-90-he-brought-cosmos-us-all
#CarlSagan had a gift for translating complex scientific ideas into stories that sparked wonder and inspired generations, including many of the scientists shaping today’s discoveries. On what would have been his 90th birthday, we celebrate Carl Sagan as a visionary who brought the stars closer, reminding us to stay curious and to keep looking up. Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan—thank you for showing us the universe. #HappyBirthdayCarl #CarlSagan90 #space #science #scicomm
In memory of Carl Sagan, born on this date in 1934. His unquenchable curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and knowledge, combined with his astute intellect and keen insights and powers of observation, make many of his eloquent writings seem eerily prophetic. But he’d be the last person to attribute them to supernatural powers; they came from the honing of his natural ones.
His quote below begins, “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.”…
#CarlSagan #quote #science
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan (1934-1996) in his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan (1934-1996) in his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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On this day, we celebrate the birth of Carl Sagan in 1934. Sagan's work in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology brought the wonders of the universe closer to everyone. #CarlSagan #Cosmos #Science
No one has ever explained space, in all its bewildering glory, as well as you did. You taught us to be citizens of the cosmos, to grasp the immensity and insignificance, to embrace the infinite, and to be kind.
Happy Birth-day, Carl!
Saturday is the 90th anniversary of the birth of Carl Sagan. 
He's best known as an astronomer, author, and documentary presenter. But I consider him to be a philosopher of reason. His clear-mindedness and logic are needed more than ever these days.
I'm attatching an excerpt from his book The Demon-Haunted World. It's from a chapter called "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection". Save it, share it, and use it!
VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Music Of Cosmos
1981 Canada pressing
I just ate a gummy about ten minutes ago, so I needed the appropriate soundtrack for when shit is on.
Adding to and rearranging the studio is serious business, so why not invite the spirit of Carl Sagan in to lend a helping hand.
Some great VANGELIS pieces on here, as well as some Yamaguchi & Tomita as well.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #soundtrack #ambient #electronic #spacerock #carlsagan
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