I received this article over email recently, and I want to share it with the Earthsky community:
THE WAKING UP SYNDROME
by Sarah Anne Edwards and Linda Buzzell
“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” - T. S. Eliot
Just dealing with our daily lives keeps most of us too busy to worry about whether or not the sky is […]
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The waking up syndrome
Published April 28th, 2008 in Attitudes, Psychology, Change, Faith, Mental health, Education, Life, Environment, Health, Human World, Innovation, Body and Mind, Trends, Ideas and Uncategorized. 1 CommentDid you know? shift happens!
Published April 5th, 2008 in Invention, Change, Education, Evolving planet, Future, Technology, Attitudes, Electronic devices, Innovation, Earth, Ideas, Trends, Computers and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsWhen EarthSky’s Deborah Byrd told me recently that college kids today are being prepared for jobs that haven’t even been invented when they started college, and how many college graduates there are each year (as represented in the image), we both stared auspiciously into our respective bowls of posole at a local Mexican restaurant and […]
The worldwide telescope coming in march
Published February 29th, 2008 in WorldWide Telescope, Software, Stargazing, Virtual Observatory, Invention, Science, Education, Images, Photographs, Natural phenomena, Astronomy, Space, Time and Space, Ideas, Visual Imagery, Trends and Innovation. 0 Comments***”We may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant”***
Roy Gould, researcher at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, gave a presentation on TED TALKS announcing the arrival this spring of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT), sometimes called the Virtual Observatory, a new software capability created by Microsoft that takes the best raw images from […]