Earth as seen from Saturn - Beautiful Picture

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 7:18 AM PDT

2006/09/28 · 07:18

This picture was posted on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site yesterday

Astronomy Picture of the Day

You can see our home planet Earth if you go about 85% over to the right of the image and then 60% of the way up from there. That's us in between two of Saturn's rings (n.b. the inset image in the upper left is a magnified view of the Earth with the smudge to the upper left being the moon).

I offer it to give a sense of perspective on our place within the universe and perhaps just a moment of respite for all of us activists trying so hard to change things here on our, as Carl Sagan put it, "pale blue dot."

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Wednesday September 27, 2006 · 3:41 PM PDT

2006/09/27 · 15:41

I'm currently reading Richard Dawkins' new book "The God Delusion" and have noticed that he is going on a speaking tour in the near future. Here is a brief biography:

Richard Dawkins taught zoology at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oxford University and is now the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position he has held since 1995. The Wall Street Journal said his "passion is supported by an awe-inspiring literary craftsmanship." The New York Times Book Review has hailed him as a writer who "understands the issues so clearly that he forces his reader to understand them too." Among his previous books are The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, and A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love. Read More

On the Inherent Value of all Human Beings

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 10:24 AM PDT

2006/09/15 · 10:24

The Dignitarian Foundation is working to foster the notion that all people, regardless of societal rank, are treated with respect and seen to have inherent worth simply because they are a human being. Bob Fuller, a leader of this movement has written several books describing what he refers to as rankism, that is the pecking order we establish in society to give value to one person over another. In such a system, janitors and garbage collectors are less prized than doctors and CEOs.
What this way of thinking misses is that without janitors, cashiers, and others working at the lowly regarded jobs in our society, the "higher ups" could not function. Imagine if your city's garbagemen just stopped picking up garbage and no one wanted to do those jobs because they are given such low dignity. Read More

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Earth as seen from Saturn - Beautiful Picture

Richard Dawkins on tour

On the Inherent Value of all Human Beings