Me in 5th grade: I will never smoke or drink or do any drugs ever
Me now: I probably wouldn't do meth
If you wouldn’t mind
The next time you see a church sign displaying a message such as “Support Our Troops”, please take a picture of it and send it to me.
I’m making a collage, of sorts…
Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes.
Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science.
There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.
—Carl Sagan“
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Be free from expectation. Be free from hatred and negativity. Detach yourself from all that does not serve you and find the love and light shining within. Life is too short and there are too many possibilities to take everything so seriously. Stop resisting and begin flowing. All that we know is true is that everything is constantly changing, evolving, and growing. If we realize that our struggles are secret blessings in disguise that help us further on our journey of growth, we can never be upset with how the universe works. Our thoughts create our reality. Manifest positivity, smile and laugh when it all seems like too much. Everything and everyone is connected by the endless and infinite vibrations that link us all together, feel the energy and the oneness of it all, let the beauty of the Now bring clarity and peace. Live and love for the day, be aware and conscious, go slowly…. and be grateful. Do the things you love and be with people that love you and forget the rest. Expand. Awaken. Enlighten. and be happy. Life is beautiful, just take a moment to stop, observe, and breathe it all in.
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It was just last week that we reported on the oh-so-close approach to 1,000 confirmed exoplanets discovered thus far, and now it’s official: the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia now includes more than 1,000! (1,010, to be exact.)
hello small feathered things i am a baby elephant it is nice to meet you may we shake noses?
MAY WE SHAKE NOSES
“Americans rank well below the worldwide average in just about every measure of skill. In math, reading, and technology-driven problem-solving, the United States performed worse than nearly every other country in the group of developed nations."
And, young American adults are “the most computer-challenged of the 20 participating countries”.
via kateoplis
OUR PLACE IN A UNIVERSE OF STAR STUFF
Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff.
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective by Carl Sagan, 1973 pp. 189 - 190] [source: Quote Investigator]
___________________________________And I feel like I’m a cog in something turning.
And maybe it’s the time of year, yes,
and maybe it’s the time of man.
And I don’t know who I am but life is for learning.
We are stardust, we are golden,
we are billion year old carbon …The song ‘Woodstock’, lyrics by Joni Mitchell, 1969. Famously recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. [Wikipedia]
___________________________________We are made of the same stuff as the stars, so when we study astronomy we are in a way only investigating our remote ancestry and our place in the universe of star stuff. Our very bodies consist of the same chemical elements found in the most distant nebulae, and our activities are guided by the same universal rules.
Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard College Observatory, quoted in a 1929 [August 11]New York Times printed article titled “The Star Stuff That Is Man” (first page of the magazine section). [source: Quote Investigator]
(He wasn’t a famous scientist, but it was Harlow Shapley who came up with the idea of a habitable zone around stars.)
___________________________________IMAGE CREDITS: psyborgTV, Wikimedia
