Thinking stuff...
Open
Democracy - good writing with no axes to grind.
The Brookings Institute is always
putting out thoughtful and well researched ideas.
Heros and heroines:
I would have dearly loved to learn everything that the late Carl Sagan might have had time to tell me - a wonderful and eloquent scientist, and fellow human being. If you haven't already done so, read his words about our pale blue dot; I defy you not to be moved by them.
Same goes too for Richard Feynman. In one clip on the link page he explains, better than I ever could, why it's OK to be just plain uncertain about things. In another he says, "I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction" - omitting to point out, in his modesty, that his ideas and insights changed the world, and continue to do so.
James Randi - whom I admire for telling it like it is...
Bob Carroll - for providing a skeptic's refuge, and a dictionary to accompany it. |
