There are five naked eye planets that you can learn to recognize in the night sky. These are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Unless you count the Earth. Learni [...]
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Posted by Jeffrey Simons, StarTalk Social Media Director: Two weeks ago, Senator Cory Booker was one of our guests at StarTalk Live! at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, [...]
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Cartoon by Adam Zyglis, America First: January 27, 2018 When I look around I see poverty, destruction of nature, inequality. I see a celebration of ignorance and apathy. I’ [...]
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Car being built by robots in Tesla factory I’ve been saying this myself for years. One job is replace [...]
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Tesla with exhaust pipes You have surely seen this headline before. Maybe you read the article, maybe you just sighed and moved on. (more…)
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This post relates a lot to the above quote. When people think of scientific literacy it makes sense that they think it’s general scientific knowledge and unders [...]
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In short we founded SLM (Scientific Literacy Matters) to promote a more reasonable way of thinking in society. It’s been shown time, and time again, that most things ailing humanity comes from ignorance or misinformation. War, poverty, oppression; all things that stem from misconceptions.
Emily Carney has written articles for AmericaSpace, Ars Technica, and other online outlets throughout the last decade. She founded the Space Hipsters group on Facebook in 2011, and has her own spaceflight blog called This Space Available Scientific literacy is key to developing the critical thinking processes that are essential to fueling future […]
Scientists at NASA were puzzled on October 13, 2014 when the LRO sent back this distorted image. In a press release NASA states that the only explanation is that the LRO was hit by a meteoroid and that had shook the camera mid exposure. To verify this theory, the LRO team used a computer model that […]
The pale blue dot. It’s what astronomer Carl Sagan called our home planet when he viewed it from the furthest vantage point a picture of Earth was ever taken. It’s also a beautiful speech, which many agree that everyone should listen very carefully to. The speech brings about a feeling that our problems might not […]
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for […]
To me it’s hilarious that there are still people who believe we didn’t land on the moon, despite the overwhelming evidence. But then so is the case with many things. Some people think the earth is flat, global warming, conspiracy theories. It’s sad really.
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