'light in winter' and 'sagan's cosmos 30 years on' art show

this year, the ithaca tompkins county public library participated in the annual light in winter festival in ithaca, NY, with an art show entitled sagan's cosmos 30 years on: celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the PBS series cosmos: a personal voyage.  the exhibit opened on january 21st and featured never-before seen art of carl sagan, as well as massive images from the mars rover and the cassini mission.

i was happy to donate two of my sagan-inspired images to the exhibit:  pale blue dandy and little planet pendeli.

patrick fish, founder of the sagan appreciation society, very kindly forwarded some images from the opening night to me, as well as a link to the tompkins weekly which describes the exhibit in depth [on page 5].


from left, library development associate sally grubb, carl sagan's son, nick sagan, and curator patrick fish.
photo by lawrence klaes.


nick sagan and my image, pale blue dandy :-))
photo by patrick fish

the exhibit will be on display through february 27th -- so if you're in the ithaca area, you're very, very lucky.

richard dawkins & daniel dennett vs. francis collins & benjamin carson

science and faith, beverly hills, CA, 2006, in 4 parts:



via RDFRS

live the language -- beijing

pangs of nostalgia



via dimitrio's travel pages

scale by brad goodspeed

'the basic idea is, each planet you see is the size it would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with the moon, 380,000 km from earth'



via io9

pz myers: science and atheism are natural allies

at the humanist canada/atheist alliance international 2010 convention in montreal

christopher hitchens on the tea party

a clip from my previous posts of the full interview, this focuses on hitchens' views of the tea party:

jake shimabukuro plays 'bohemian rhapsody'

on TED

hans rosling: the good news of the decade?

on TED

spiral-tuality lii

at hubble, NGC 6503


click to source
via the bad astronomer

come down jehovah

by chris wood

the world and the universe through the eyes of non-believers

what we believe



music and lyrics by colony 5 - future:

tragedies and suffering 
i hear them scream 
screaming for help 
the prophets preach 
the end of the world 
only fools believe their words 

we want to love 
we want to breathe 
we want to be 
rebuild the world 
with the knowledge 
we retrieve 

we want to feel 
we want to live 
we want to see 
seek the wisdom 
from the future 
and believe

no truth without evidence 
it's easy to lie 
who can seek the answers 
who can see through the sky 
such a great temptation 
who can carry such a quest 
and gain that information 
we don't need no god 

we don't need no god no more 
we don't need a tyrant 

we want to love 
we want to breathe 
we want to be 
rebuild the world 
with the knowledge 
we retrieve 

we want to feel 
we want to live 
we want to see 
seek the wisdom 
from the future 
and believe

brian greene on colbert

'you are a bag of particles governed by the laws of physics.'

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star trek girl

resistance is futile



via io9

neil pasricha: the 3 A's of awesome

on TED: attitude - awareness - authenticity

daniel c. dennett: what should replace religions?

humanist canada convention, montreal, oct 2, 2010



i love what he has to say about TED.

horizon: science under attack

BBC2 24 January 2011

'nobel prize winner sir paul nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded - from the theory that man-made climate change is warming our planet, to the safety of GM food, or that HIV causes AIDS.'



via debunking christianity

fizzy enceladus

at NASA:


click image to source
'for years researchers have been debating whether enceladus, a tiny moon floating just outside saturn's rings, is home to a vast underground ocean. is it wet--or not? now, new evidence is tipping the scales. not only does enceladus likely have an ocean, it's probably fizzy like a soft drink and could be friendly to microbial life.'

...more here...

the decay of heaven

by tony darnell:

mitochondria

powering the cell



via cosmic log

martin jacques: understanding the rise of china

at TED:

world views: a photo exhibit

click!
if you're in the athens area, how about dropping by my photo exhibition next week (or the next)?
it's at I.P.P.O. bar, intelligent picture project organization, 11 thiseos street, syntagma, athens, feb 1-13, 2011.

have a drink and chill...
facebook event

Q&A with christopher hitchens, jan 14 2011

transcript
via daily hitchens

carl sagan: the edge of forever

part 6 of the carl sagan tribute series:

ricky gervais: atheism shouldn't offend

on CNN:



via the friendly atheist

the big beginning

from the symphony of science:



more science music videos at symphony of science.

the girls on star trek

kirk and pike, if they were female.



read more about the girls on film project here as well as more info and background on my source, trekmovie.

day and night above almost planet sounio

by chris kotsiopoulos, on apod:


click to see larger at source
more of his awesome imagery at greek sky.

if you visit athens and don't plan to visit sounion (about an hour's drive away), especially during a golden hour, you're missing something awesome.

naomi klein: addicted to risk

on TED:

male genital mutilation and clueless doctors

shameful, really

darwin v adam & eve

i was only a kid in elementary school -- but this is what clinched it for me... always... it was that there was no adam & eve; therefore, nothing else from abrahamic religions can follow.



via too many questions

ricky gervais on the golden globes

thanking god that he made him an atheist:



more stuff he said.
via pharyngula.

size of the universe

it's really, really big.



via flowing data

two years [in china] in five minutes

i don't know what it is about china that excites me so much -- i loved this torrent of images by david gilbert, who runs a blog i follow, randomwire:

solar roadways

why not?

amber case: we are all cyborgs now

at TED:

200 countries, 200 years

by hans rosling, the joy of stats, BBC four



via countess diaries

fly me to the moons: carolyn porco in lego

this is precious!

carolyn porco's thrilling TEDtalk, recreated with lego!



and here are more LEGOscientists!

read about how this came to be, at annals of spacetime.

vivian maier

i don't remember where i stumbled on it, but i've been subscribed to the blog, vivian maier, her discovered work. now i just saw this video about her and i thought i'd share:

vivian maier, street photographer and nanny



edit: just found this... i'm adding it to the post.

finding vivian maier

this remarkable thing

by philhellenes



via RDFRS

the president's photographer

on new hampshire public television:

watch the full episode. see more the presidents photographer.

via lightscript

boundary

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fun is a word -- i would be careful about applying to this particular venture. it's been total, which is better than fun... also, harder than fun.
- kate mulgrew

have a total 2011.

©2011 helen sotiriadis