Tag: Carl Sagan
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Comment: Nasa ‘re-masters’ classic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth.
The bright dot in the sunbeam on the far right in the image above is the “dot” being referred to. “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The…
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I enjoyed reading (July)
Artificial Intelligence Is Now Telling Doctors How to Treat You (Daniela Hernandez) Artificial intelligence is still in the very early stages of development–in so many ways, it can’t match our own intelligence–and computers certainly can’t replace doctors at the bedside. But today’s machines are capable of crunching vast amounts of data and identifying patterns that…
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Cultivating curiosity
in LearningCarl Sagan is one of my favourite people in the world. Not only did he have his own sense of delight in discovery, but he could express it in ways that cultivated that sense in others.
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Are we preparing students for life?
The following is an excerpt from Tom Whitby’s post, Are we preparing students for life? Content in past decades was slow to change. Even as advances were made in science, history, geography, and literature, the world itself moved at a slower pace, so time and change were less critical. We had a print media that…