Three Videos You Should Watch
Posted on: April 17, 2008 - 3:44pm
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Three Videos You Should Watch
Found these while searching the 'net for credible information on the Library of Alexandria. Nearly anything put together by Sagan is worthwhile to watch anyway, but this brief series really underlines why the popularization of science is so important:
Quote:
"Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full."
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
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Maybe you should watch a video on how to count to three. hehe
Good find Kevin. Sagan is deeply missed.
"I am an atheist, thank God." -Oriana Fallaci
You beat me to it watcher!
Kevin, those are great videos. They are from Cosmos right? I am pretty sure I remember watching these in 9th grade during my earth science class. Just goes to show that Science has been around along time and wasn't a Christian concept(as some have suggested). Sagan rules.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
Sagan does indeed rule, what a captivating professor of ideas. These videos are so depressing. Say, aren't the popes supposed to be infallible when declaring who are saints?
Anyway, they reminded me of this book I've had on my amazon wishlist for a while, I think Yellow #5 recommended it somewhere:
Synopsis
___________________ On a November night in Egypt, 414 A.D., one of history's most brilliant individuals was assassinated. Her name was Hypatia, teacher and scientist of the fabled Great Library of Alexandria and the last glimmer of hope before the Dark Ages. ___________________ The Roman Empire is crumbling, the fragments of the classical world regrouping in Egypt when Thasos, son of an ill-fated scholar, meets Hypatia of Alexandria. Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher at a time when women were shunned from learning, Hypatia is a daring visionary in a world about to change forever. As an insidious power-struggle erupts between church and state Hypatia finds herself at the forefront of battle, but she is not alone. Those who cherish her, who will remember her, become her allies - including the powerful Governor Orestes, who keeps his consuming love for her as secret as she keeps her feelings from him. Remembering Hypatia is a vivid retelling of a now-forgotten historical tragedy, when courage stood against fear, when the legacy of the wise vanished in the dark. Author Brian Trent resurrects the ancient world's most famous metropolis and explores the final days, not just of a brilliant mind, but of a lost era...BASED ON THE TRUE STORY
...Or, maybe, the third video simply isn't as obvious to the casual observer as the first two. Maybe, in fact, the third video requires a little leap of faith before you can experience it!
(Yeah, I boned-up. There actually was a third video, but I forgot to link it. Oh well. There's plenty of links to it through those two videos if you navigate to the YouTube site)
I heard of Sagan/Cosmos about ten years too late to attempt getting into correspondence with him. I literally spent a week digging-up every archived piece of footage could find of his lectures / public speeches / televised appearances, and crying over them. I felt like I was born just two decades too far ahead.
If there were ever any reason I'd wish for there to be an afterlife, it's so I could spend an afternoon of it talking with Carl Sagan over lunch.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
Here it is. The long lost,
video the third: