Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or 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 and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

More true every day

24.02.2025 13:26 — 👍 5754    🔁 1433    💬 149    📌 94

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry. - Nikita Gill

22.02.2025 23:32 — 👍 2564    🔁 681    💬 66    📌 31

If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism

21.02.2025 15:37 — 👍 3699    🔁 1005    💬 150    📌 117

Seven years on from when the then-schoolgirl Greta Thunberg first began her simple call for action on climate change, it's remarkable - and so telling - that she is *still* living rent free in the minds of some of the world's most privileged and powerful men

15.02.2025 10:30 — 👍 650    🔁 90    💬 6    📌 4

Greta Thunberg in pink blouse grimaces, her eyes tracking to the left. Behind her stands a man in a suit.

This Greta Thunberg pic and my accompanying snarky #haiku, from the day she came face to face with the orange monster at the UN during Trump 1.0. May I just add, how I'm feeling as 2nd month of 2.0 arrives.
#Resist

21.02.2025 13:34 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future is a prophetic look at mankind’s tragic climate driven future, with the unlikeliest of heroes- humans themselves. A hopeful and terrible look at the insane, complex issues humanity must overcome, including greed and willful ignorance.

21.02.2025 04:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This 7-year-old girl was one of five children arrested by Russian police along with their mothers after the group attempted to leave flowers and child-made signs reading "No War" outside of the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow nearly three years ago - after Russia invaded Ukraine.

#TruthIsTruth

20.02.2025 02:47 — 👍 64    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

I am so tired of waiting, aren’t you, For the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let’s take a knife and cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind. Langston Hughes

25.11.2024 02:17 — 👍 33086    🔁 5185    💬 428    📌 173