Astronomy
Earth 2.0
The Search for Life
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
It's good to be reminded how we are all star matter, partaking in both immense smallness and vastness, both at once -- we are small souls in a vast universe, and perhaps a multiverse. Carl Sagan gives voice to that here -- our Pale Blue Dot -- and I think of it often.
NASA - 5 Year Time Lapse of the Sun
Mesmerizing!
We Are Dead Stars - The Atlantic
Krista Tippett - On Being - Interviews Physicist Leonard Mlodinow
I'm a big fan of Krista Tippett's interviews on her show On Being. I especially love it when she talks to physicists. I can't get enough of the ideas of multi-verses and the beyond the headlines explanations of the Higgs boson; exoplanets that resemble the earth; and the new map of the cosmos that is unfolding at this moment. It's the physicists who bring these worlds to us; it's Krista Tippett's ability to ask the questions that bring the world of science into the realm of interested listeners in a down to earth way as we look in wonder at all that is out there.
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
Multiverse Rendering - Art by Moonrunner Design - National Geographic
Ever since I saw this rendering, I can't get my mind off of it: