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Carl Sagan: My God, it's full of stars

Decoding the Gurus

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The Complex Grammar of the Primates

The ability to express complicated ideas develops before or after the ability to do complex vocalizations and grammar. Stephen Pinker actually was on a really good people i thought about this long time ago so it just reminds me that you know when people are sitting on them about culture war stuff like it's research stuff sometimes it's pretty good. There's a clip which is quite famous a little bit long but i think we're hearing at least in part which is a variation of his peel blue dot speech where he basically is talking about an image where the satellite took a photo of earth turned back on its way out as solar system  and Earth appears as a moat of dust on a peel blue beam

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