Tag: Carl Sagan
“Optimism” and a Lonely Planet
Adam Frank (University of Rochester) interviewed fellow astrophysicist Avi Loeb (Harvard) about the future possibility of detecting “techno-signatures” from space.
Farewell, Stephen Hawking
Recently, there was the increasing sense that he was being exploited by the media for his brilliant reputation.
Here’s My Story: Why You Should Apply to the Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design
Chances are, we’ve all attended a lecture, a conference, or some other event that was said to be “critical,” “momentous,” or even “life-changing.”
Fun! Cosmos and 2015 Censor of the Year Neil deGrasse Tyson Get a Second Season
The fabulist Dr. Tyson returns, and we commit ourselves in advance to being there to watch and check his facts.
Mock at Your Peril! Naturalism Is a Jealous Fraud
It’s not just that media-darling disciplines ruled by naturalism fail the facts. They fail at precisely the points where they should succeed if naturalism were true.