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Carl Sagan: I have a foreboding

. . Carl Sagan, prophetic, in 1995: (as it appeared on Twitter 12/26/21.  The actual bibliographic reference is Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Random House 1997)   “Especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” is one of the poignant phrases in Sagan’s prophetic essay.  This trend, I perceive, started with Ronald Reagan, and everything went … Continue reading →

America was invented in Freiburg

. This is what I found out as I recently visited the University of Freiburg in Germany, my Alma Mater: Herr Waldseemueller was a cartograph in Freiburg who in 1507 published an updated map of the world, which included the New World, a mere sliver on the left. It was made from several large woodcuts … Continue reading →

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