Cosmos a series by Carl Sagan
So I just completed the Cosmos series by Carl Sagan for the first time today and I’m drowning here with hope and deep sorrow simultaneously.
It is 31 years old but yet its message is still as enduring as it was back then. I can not eloquent describe how I feel about the show.
My mind wanders, and I feel that we as a species share a common hope for a grand future, but our disposition towards greed and conflict might cut our hopes & dreams short, perhaps too soon.
Oh Yeah Facts: How many senses do you have?
At least nine. The five we all know about: Sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, were first proposed by Aristotle, but there are now four more which are agreed among scientists to be official senses, these are:
1. Thermoception – the sense of heat (or it’s absence) on our skin,
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(Source: listverse.com)
In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs — from space probes to the LHC — are first to suffer budget cuts.
Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a profound appreciation of our existence.
