Reddit reviews Cosmos

Have you seen their Highlights for High School feature?

Also, there are sites like Academic Earth that might be useful.

Here are a few blogs with potential. You'll have to decide for yourself if they have inappropriate content.

Here are a few book recommendations covering various fields, in no particular order (though they should all read #1):

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything
   
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
   
3. Einstein: His Life and Universe
   
4. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
   
5. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
   
6. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
   
7. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
   
8. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
   
9. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
   
10. Cosmos
    
11. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
    
12. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
    
13. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
    
14. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
    
15. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
    
16. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    
17. Chaos: Making a New Science
    
18. Isaac Newton
    
19. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    
20. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
    
    And here's a video interview with Richard Feynman they might enjoy.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan is a brilliant book, it's the book that really sparked my fascination with astronomy.

I had, thank you. Same to you.

>Is humanity at peak prosperity? Yes, probably so. Why? Because it’s already the direction we were headed in.

I think is important to establish why we were headed in. Is because we discover ways to make our real, natural life better. Not because we discover ways to improve our spiritual life. Even though we tried with thousand of Gods and religions.

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>It’s not like we’ve been walking in circles for the last ten thousand years.

We actually kind of were going in circles:

"Copernicus (1473-1543)1,2, Kepler (1571-1630), Galileo (1564-1642)3,4,5, Newton (1643-1727)6 and Laplace (1749-1827)7 all fought battles against the Church when they published scientific papers that enraged the Church by writing that the Earth might orbit the sun, rather than the idea that it sat at a central position in the Universe. These and other scientists suffered torture, imprisonment, forced recantations and death at the hands of Christians5,8. The source of the Church's confidence was the Bible.

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"2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea. Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away. [...]

In the 6th century B.C., in Ionia, a new concept developed, one of the great ideas of the human species. The universe is knowable, the ancient Ionians argued, because it exhibits an internal order: there are regularities in Nature that permit its secrets to be uncovered. [...] This ordered and admirable character of the universe was called Cosmos. [...]

Between 600 and 400 B.C., this great revolution in human thought began. [...] The leading figures in this revolution were men with Greek names, largely unfamiliar to us today, the truest pioneers in the development of our civilization and our humanity.”

"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (1995)37

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When did the Catholic Church officially accepted the fact of a moving Earth? Can you believe it was 1992

The idea is Christianity proposes and imposes a system in which reality works because of supernatural forces. Which has been proven wrong so so many times when it tried to defend it.

So I can say that Christianity is false because it's claims has been proven false in all its history. The sun doesn't burn because of supernatural forces, volcanos, thunders, earthquakes, floods, desises, disasters are not the wrath of Gods. From here I have big doubts about claims about soul, haven, angels, demons, etc.

L'unico papabile, in inglese, e che non costa una fucilata l'ho trovato su amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cosmos-Cosmic-Evolution-Science-Civilisation/dp/0349107033/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Nei commenti lo incensano, ma quelli da 1 stella dicono che quello venduto è una ristampa fatta male senza le molte immagini che contraddistinguono il libro. Io nel dubbio l'ho preso lo stesso perché se scopro che un libro è raro devo averlo, ma dopo aver letto queste recensioni volevo quasi restituirlo. Dovrebbe arrivare la settimana prossima così vedrò...

Well, I think one of my favorite books at that age was probably something science fiction related, but these days theres a variety of things from which to pick, I think one of my favorites would be James Burke's "Connections" , another book is of course Sagan's "Cosmos" or these days I might even suggest something like Dawkins' "Climbing Mount Improbable".