Carl Sagan

California Love

D. R. Tucker | Posted 04.16.2012

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D. R. Tucker

I don't remember watching The Earth Day Special when it was first broadcast by ABC in April 1990. Perhaps if I had watched it 22 years ago, I would have avoided falling for the right's denialist trap.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Chimp Research: The Beginning Of The End?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Video, Chimps, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Talk Nerdy to Me, Science, Carl Sagan, Institute of Medicine, Cara Santa Maria, Chimpanzees, Animal Research, Apes, Nih, Great Apes, Science News

2012-01-09-fjkdjfjdkfkdjfefd.jpgOther than the West African nation of Gabon, we are the only country in the entire world that still experiments on chimps.

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Scientists and Engineers Need Different Inspiration

Mark Changizi, Ph.D. | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Math and Science Education, Stem, Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Science News
Mark Changizi, Ph.D.

Last summer I had the privilege of going to Scifoo where I met interesting folks and heard about interesting science. But my story here in this piece ...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: We Are All Connected

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Chemistry, Connection, Video, Bill Nye, Talk Nerdy to Me, Biology, Humankind, Nature, Science, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Universe, Education News

2011-11-28-djfdjigrigjifdjfjfhjghfjghdnfdhfjdf.jpgIf you haven't already done so, please take a moment to vote on what you'd like to talk nerdy about in December.

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Thank You, Carl Sagan

Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 01.12.2012

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Zoe P. Strassfield

I never thought I'd meet astronauts, especially not several of them twice. I never thought I'd see a space shuttle launch. I never thought I'd get to work for NASA. But I did, and I owe it to you.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Happy Birthday Carl Sagan

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.09.2012

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You were a great man. Your work continues to inspire a whole new generation of thinkers. You are missed. Happy birthday, Dr. Carl Sagan.

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An Idiot And Infinite Wisdom

R.W. Sanders | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Fermi's Paradox, MACS 1206, Hubble Scientists, Robert Heinlein, Strangers in a Strange Land, Enrico Fermi, Hubble Telescope, Hubble Images, UFO's, Mail Online, Ancient Aliens, Carl Sagan, Weird News News
R.W. Sanders

How can anyone who views shots taken by the Hubble telescope deny funding for space exploration? There are shots of galaxies and galaxy clusters that are similar to looking into a funhouse mirror.

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What Carl Sagan Saw

Network Awesome | Posted 11.08.2011

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Network Awesome

It is a unique form of heartbreak for a prophet to be denied the culmination of his visions. For us, Carl Sagan may have been born at exactly the right time. He was six years old at the 1939 World's Fair, where he found both science and television waiting for him, fabulous and fascinating.

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The Cosmic Dancer: Obama and Shiva

Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hinduism, Cern, Carl Sagan, President Obama, Barack Obama, Cosmic Dance, Shiva Nataraja, Obama Newsweek Cover, Religion News
Philip Goldberg

Newsweek may have misused a religious icon, but it also gave us a reason to contemplate a sublime metaphorical image.

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The Sirens of Titan: Alien Life?

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.

This brings us full circle to HAL's warning. If life exists elsewhere in the solar system, it will be both a boon and a burden.

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What's in a Name?

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Means No Worldwide, National Women's History Project, Carolyn Shoemaker, Carl Sagan, Astronomy, Comets, Quakers, Maria Mitchell, Caroline Herschel, Impact News
Ellen Snortland

In wondering "what comets were named after women?," we explore women's contributions to science, which are often overlooked.

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Science Writing At Its Finest? Richard Dawkins's 'Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing'

The New York Review of Books | Jeremy Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeremy Bernstein The New York Review of Books A Bouquet of Science "The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing" edited by Richard Dawkins Oxford Univ...

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Stephen Hawking 'Sings' On Pop Tribute To Carl Sagan (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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**See Video Below** Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is featured 'singing' with scientist Carl Sagan on a pop tribute to the astronomer that has...

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Planetary Society plans Sunlight-Propelled Craft

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the e...

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Demographic Science and Gay Civil Rights

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 2010 Census, Census, Marriage, Michelle Obama, Same Sex Marriage, Science, Immigration, Chinese, Carl Sagan, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

Allowing the Census Bureau to apply its scientific powers to the question of changing families is a breath of fresh air from which demographers, and the public, will ultimately benefit.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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