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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Carl Sagan: The Demon Haunted World- Science as a Candle in the Dark....

......is a 1995 book by astrophysicist Carl Sagan, in which Sagan aims to explain the scientific method to laypeople, and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish between ideas that are considered valid science and those that can be considered pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking and should stand up to rigorous questioning.

Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World / Science As A Candle In The Dark
(FULL) Audiobook 
3 hours 54 minutes
https://youtu.be/e0yII8OT5fc

Carl Sagan: Knowledge Is Preferable To Ignorance

“...the significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
Quote from Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of the Human Future in Space”

"Pale Blue Dot”- Episode 1: "Wanderers"
40 minutes (good quality video)
https://youtu.be/5wZauL04R9s

Cosmos (1980) Epidode 1
https://youtu.be/QH8O6AItdZ4

Cosmos: Episodes 1-12
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC-TjFzxCjBf6Qbz74h4BqxQ

Cosmos Special Edition-
A special 6-part version of Carl Sagan's Cosmos series that aired in 1986. It featured material from the original 1980 series, plus newly shot material and a new dedicated soundtrack. 
Each episode is 44 minutes.
Episode One:
https://youtu.be/VDDzX53mACI
Episode Two:
https://youtu.be/2KR3HHAZDkw
Episode Three:
https://youtu.be/u40YIk3Pxb0
Episode Four:
https://youtu.be/2SoIuwjv034
Episode Five:
https://youtu.be/IOr1S4KZwSA
Episode Six:
https://youtu.be/O2zPeVo5bsU