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Instrumentals

1 week ago1w

Posted by WilliamCharles

Starman Theme - Sagan Tribute

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Quotes

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by gsiamne

I don't want to believe. I want to know. - Carl Sagan Yes, I am now back despite another person who posted here.

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Quotes

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Marionville

“The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas”..............Carl Sagan.

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Academic (e.g., Science)

2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Word

Carl Sagan: In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Jan 12Jan 12

Posted by Captain_Feelgood

Hard to argue with Carl... The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark | Carl Sagan 1995

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Humour, Fun, Chuckles, Laughs, or Cutes, From Everywhere.

Dec 31, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Triphid

A Truckie comes across a car on the side of the Nullabor Highway and hears the driver of the car whistling a familiar tune. He asks the driver what the tune he is whistling and what it's all about. The Car Driver looks up and answers, " Well it's my ...

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Quotes

Dec 29, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Hages

Carl Sagan quote

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Science, Health & History Tidbits

Dec 28, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Dhiltong

How Carl Sagan "Predicted" 2020 In 1995

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Just for Laughs

Dec 17, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by bobwjr

Seems like good advice to me

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Silly, Random & Fun

Dec 2, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by IAJO163

LINKHiker recounts seeing mysterious monolith removed from Utah desert site

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Sunset, Sea, Coffee and Me

Dec 2, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Boomtarat03

Myself and I

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Conservative Atheists

Dec 1, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Thirst2learn

Malcolm X The white liberal is the worst enemy to America, and the worst enemy to the black man. Let me explain what I mean by the white liberal. In America there is no such thing as Democrat or Republican anymore. In America you have liberals and ...

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News & Links

Dec 1, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by Blackatheist1985

LINKA bipartisan group of senators unveil a compromise $908 billion stimulus plan that includes $300 federal unemployment benefits, but omits a 2nd round of stimulus checks

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Celebrity Pictures

Dec 1, 2020Dec 2020

Posted by OldMetalHead

Wolfman Jack (Radio DJ) in the 1970's

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aussie sceptics

Nov 30, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by anglophone

LINKChina refuses to apologise for doctored image of Australian soldier tweeted by government official

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General & Hellos

Nov 26, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by desertastronomer

For Native Peoples, Thanksgiving Isn't A Celebration. It's A National Day Of Mourning

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General & Hellos

Nov 25, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Petter

Just came across this article on a friend of mine who lived in Aguadulce, near Roquetas de Mar. He was in his nineties and was more energetic than people half his age. The story of the Sagan breakout became widely known with the ...

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Profile

Nov 21, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Marqus

First snow on the mountains

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Trump Pinata

Nov 17, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by LucyLoohoo

A wise man....

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Posts

Nov 11, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Boomtarat03

Grand Hall of Wat Maha That, Sukhothai Province, Thailand

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Nov 9, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by redhog

Lets all remember the great Carl Sagan on what would have been his 86th Birthday.

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General & Hellos

Nov 7, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Organist1

MSNBC just announced that Joe Biden is president-elect!

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News & Links

Nov 4, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by SeaGreenEyez

LINKFloridians vote in $15.00 minimum wage

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Posts

Nov 2, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by glennlab

Y'all know sexy when you hear sexy?

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Politics

Nov 2, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by snytiger6

LINKA Trans Republican Stands Up for a Lesbian Democrat

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Earth Preservers

Nov 1, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Wildgreens

Palm Oil

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Posts

Nov 1, 2020Nov 2020

Posted by Boomtarat03

Museum Parasite, Tokyo, Japan

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Politics

Oct 20, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by Healthydoc70

“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our ...

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aussie sceptics

Oct 7, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by FrayedBear

Why put the clock one hour forward when you are still living 120 years in the past?

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Just for Laughs

Oct 6, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by bobwjr

Oops wrong escort

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Politics

Oct 5, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by floWteiuQ

LINKCarl Sagan Is Asked If He Is a Socialist and 31 Years Later, His Response Still Rings True - Feels Video | eBaum's World

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Religion & Spirituality

Oct 2, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by Eazyduzzit

I love this answer by Carl Sagan

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Music Fans

Oct 1, 2020Oct 2020

Posted by Marionville

Bedtime has come round for me once again...and tonight I’m posting a singer who’s voice I really love...Gabrielle. - Rise. I love the message in the song too!

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Posts

Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by Cutiebeauty

Great quote “We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I’m saying is, you don’t have to make stories up, you don’t have to exaggerate. There’s wonder and awe ...

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Posts

Sep 27, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by Cutiebeauty

“We all have a thirst for wonder. It’s a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I’m saying is, you don’t have to make stories up, you don’t have to exaggerate. There’s wonder and awe enough in the real...

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Posts

Sep 22, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by TimeOutForMe

Dinner not tasty 😂

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Quotes

Sep 17, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

“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.” Carl Sagan

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Quotes

Sep 12, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by Marionville

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject all evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Sep 10, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by Archeus_Lore

Carl Sagan . . . . . .

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Quotes

Sep 9, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by Hages

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” - Bertrand Russell

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Trump Pinata

Sep 5, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by chalupacabre

In his last interview, Carl Sagan warned that America will be taken over by a 'charlatan' political leader We had a Nobel Prize-winning physicist running the DoE, but he was replaced by someone who promised to abolish the agency. ...

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Quotes

Sep 1, 2020Sep 2020

Posted by Hages

"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep-seated need to believe." - Carl Sagan

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Profile

Aug 29, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by SherryF

Carl Sagan

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Silly, Random & Fun

Aug 26, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by Spinliesel

A priest, a rabbit, and a minister walk into a bar. The rabbit says, "I might be a typo".

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Aug 23, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by Amzungu

LINKJapanese airline ANA trials germ-busting 'elbow doorknob' - BBC News

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Philosophy & Meaning

Aug 20, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by Green_Soldier71

A beautiful video by Carl Sagan. Everyone's heard his "Pale Blue Dot" monologue. This one is called "Wanderers". I get teary-eyed when I listen to Sagan's voice...synonymous with my carefree childhood and my mad interest in science and all things ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Aug 11, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by Robecology

Carl Sagan died relatively young - at age 62....but his wisdom lives on... I share this in Religion and spirituality because he clearly explains how he feels about religion without any "commitments"...

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Religious Naturalism

Aug 7, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by skado

"A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge." - Carl...

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Posts

Aug 4, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by OldGoat43

CANNABIS & HEALTH A study suggested "potential anti-inflammatory effects of recent cannabis use." LINK: A study identified the "plausible appearance of tolerance to cannabidiol-enriched oil," ...

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Posts

Aug 3, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by PeteEwy

Ball is life, for both of us.

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Posts

Aug 2, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by FearlessFly

Southern Women · Lynyrd Skynyrd

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Sunset, Sea, Coffee and Me

Aug 2, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by Boomtarat03

Hungry! Going down to buy my dinner😅 feeling lazy😁

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Memes R Us

Aug 1, 2020Aug 2020

Posted by Philip21

Maybe the demon seed isn't so bad after all?

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Online Dating: The Reality

Jul 28, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by CarolinaGirl60

Online dating has finally worked for me. Just when I least suspected, I met a man from my own hometown. I was shocked! We’ve been dating steadily since we met and it’s going well. 💪🏻Woohoo!

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All Things Astronomy

Jul 23, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Hathacat

That's here. That's home. That's us, as Carl Sagan once said. The moon is in there too, but I am not sure where.

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News & Links

Jul 22, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by sassygirl3869

Trump holds chart on Fox News - shows he's lying about a different chart that has nothing to do with current Covid case trends and flare-ups. LOL.

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Politics

Jul 21, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Blackatheist1985

LINKMichael Brooks @ Lafayette full event - YouTube

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Jul 20, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by HippieChick58

EPOCH Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, early 17th century 1: A period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics. 2:The beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone ...

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Quotes

Jul 19, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Marionville

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply ...

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Posts

Jul 17, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by OldGoat43

BUSINESS 7//2020 A California judge ruled that MedMen Enterprises, Inc. must cover legal fees for its former chief financial officer in his lawsuit against the company. LINK: Grassroots is being...

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Health & Happiness

Jul 14, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Fred_Snerd

Do you use different personas to get through the day? "The narcissist does not feel that he is in any way related to his former selves. He therefore does not understand why he has to be punished for actions or inactions by his former ...

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General & Hellos

Jul 11, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by Jolanta

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open. Thomas Dewar

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Bookwurmz

Jul 6, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by PandaCat

Have any of you read “For Small Creatures Such as We” by Sasha Sagan? I love her take on how she celebrates her heritage in a secular fashion. She is poetic, passionate, and scientific. She is also quotable like her father Carl Sagan: “I ...

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Watchers

Jul 2, 2020Jul 2020

Posted by RavenCT

REMOVED TeslaSagan A FinDom looking for a CashPig. That's openly soliciting for money. I don't think it's allowed even as a kink. Don't know if the photos are her's or not. But they're found elsewhere online - in the ...

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Posts

Jun 19, 2020Jun 2020

Posted by scurry

Cats! ... Because Cats!

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Music, Movies & Books

Jun 5, 2020Jun 2020

Posted by Amzungu

LINKNina Simone: Mississippi Goddam - YouTube

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General & Hellos

May 25, 2020May 2020

Posted by MsDemeanour

LINKPale Blue Dot - You Are Here (Carl Sagan) - YouTube

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Singles/Mingle/Chat

May 9, 2020May 2020

Posted by sassygirl3869

5 Ways to make someone want to date you. 3 minute read.

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News & Links

May 4, 2020May 2020

Posted by sassygirl3869

Trump angry with FBI's Christopher Wray and wants to replace him. Attorney General Barr and White House advisors are holding him back so close to the elecion.

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News & Links

May 4, 2020May 2020

Posted by sassygirl3869

Reopening states will cause 233,000 more people to die from Covid-19 according to Wharton Model. Guess where Trump went to school?

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Just for Laughs

May 1, 2020May 2020

Posted by Jetty

That's one way to get plastered. 😁😂

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Quotes

Apr 26, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by gsiamne

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. - Carl Sagan

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Silly, Random & Fun

Apr 25, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Gatovicolo

Lysol Injection

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General & Hellos

Apr 22, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Surfpirate

Happy Earth Day and I believe that Carl Sagan captured my feelings most eloquently in this short video. We are all just here for a short while and we do not own this planet but can only hope to be good stewards of it while we are here and preserve ...

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Quotes

Apr 17, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Marionville

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring”...........Carl Sagan.

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Posts

Apr 15, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by MeggieCleary

Hi, everyone. I'm very new to this site and this group. Although I am living in Chicago right now, I am from Bloomington, and I still make it down there fairly frequently. I'm so proud to see a group created for Central Illinois nonbelievers. Central...

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Music Fans

Apr 12, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by joeymf86

Danzig - Sistinas

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Quotes

Apr 11, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by VeronicaAnn

"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. ...

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Politics

Apr 11, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by ToolGuy

NYC public schools will remain closed for rest of academic year.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 10, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by VeronicaAnn

Richard Dawkins, to me, isn't that great. He's too arrogant. Now Carl Sagan, he's great 😍 This speech is truly remarkable and totally worth 3 mins of your time. If you watch this, please let me know your thoughts! Carl was one of ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Apr 5, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by AHWalter1989

The two books that seem to summarize perfectly my world based on both how I view our place as humans on the earth and our place in the universe in general are both The Self Gene by RIchard Dawkins and Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Does anyone else ...

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Dog Lovers

Apr 3, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by OldMetalHead

Someone is a fan of social distancing/working from home.

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Memes R Us

Apr 2, 2020Apr 2020

Posted by Lizard_of_Ahaz

This is me....

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Conservative Atheists

Mar 22, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by azzow2

This was an unusual catch. I had checked the trap line early in the morning and nothing tripped. At about 11:00 A.M I had went to check on the greenhouse. I had noticed the cows out in the field had come over close to my fence then I had seen this ...

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Just for Laughs

Mar 19, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by bobwjr

Guess we are down to this

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Quotes

Mar 11, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by gsiamne

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. - Carl Sagan

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John MacArthur - Ignorance and Arrogance to Spare

Mar 7, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

I really can't say enough bad things about this guy. Each sermon I listen to has a new jawdropping bit on nonsense. In the last one, he took a dig at Carl Sagan, saying he was a psuedo-scirntist, as he mocked the notion of a science populaizer... ...

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Quotes

Mar 1, 2020Mar 2020

Posted by OnTheInside

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” – Carl ...

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Music Fans

Feb 15, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Marionville

Good morning...we’re battening down everything here again as Storm Dennis is due to crash over the U.K. and Ireland shortly, think I’ll not be doing any driving to the coast today somehow! Anyway...here’s Charlene Spiteri and ...

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Quotes

Feb 13, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet." ...

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Politics

Feb 11, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Lightupmylife

Sagan is sorely missed. These words ring true especially today

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Trump Pinata

Feb 5, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Surfpirate

Carl Sagan knew it was coming, way back in 1995.

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Read Heads

Feb 1, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by Muiren

A partial list of my reading Kindle and listening Audible mostly over the past 18 months. The Myth of Mirror Neurons (Kindle/Audible) The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition (Kindle/Audible) By Gregory Hickok The ...

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