#1 Rebecca Charbonneau - Astrohistory, Carl Sagan, Cold War SETI
Cool Worlds Podcast
How to Combat Bias in History
The James Webb Space Telescope is in the midst of a huge controversy over its name. CNN's John Sutter talks with historian and radio astronomer Sally Kohn about naming things after people like Carl Sagan, who he calls his hero. She says we should recognize that our cultural values are going to shift as time goes on so it's okay to rename things. But she also argues that names shouldn't be taken too seriously because they're more like monuments than history.
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