Today is the 100th birthday of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. According to the Writer’s Almanac, the show was the first sci-fi series to depict a generally peaceful future, and that came from Roddenberry’s fundamental optimism about the human race. …
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Huxley’s Birthday Is a Good Time to Contemplate Where We Are as a Civilization
From the Writer’s Almanac: In 1931, (Aldous Huxley) began work on a novel that he intended to be a light look at what the future might hold – a satiric response to the utopian novels of H.G. Wells. He wrote …
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Commands Awesome Power
According to the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of international media titan (Keith) Rupert Murdoch…..He has, at various times, owned many American publications, including the Star, the New York Post, the Village Voice, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Herald, New …
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Are We Making Progress as a Civilization?
A friend wrote to me last night: I will tell you, Craig, I was so utterly horrified by the dolphin video (that she had shared on Facebook, re: Japan’s considering dolphins pests and slaughtering them wholesale) I doubt I will …
Will We Survive Long Enough To Enjoy the Fruits of Science?
According to the Writer’s Almanac: Astronomer Edwin Hubble announced the discovery of other galaxies beyond the Milky Way on this date in 1924. Before he made his discovery, everyone thought that our Milky Way galaxy was the only galaxy in …
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Celebrating Group Achievement
From today’s Writer’s Almanac: On this date in 1979, a panel of scientists declared the smallpox virus to be eradicated. It’s the first and only disease to be driven to extinction through human efforts. The disease itself has probably been around …
A Note on World Peace
According to the Writer’s Almanac: Antarctica was deemed a military-free continent on this date in 1959. The Antarctic Treaty was an agreement signed by 12 nations – including the United States and the Soviet Union – stating that the continent was …
What We Can Learn from Aldous Huxley
It’s the birthday of Aldous Huxley, best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. According to the Writer’s Almanac, “(This) was one of the first novels to predict the future existence of genetic engineering, test-tube babies, anti-depression medication, and …
Many of Our Great Discoveries Were Accidental
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of James Whistler whose most famous painting was titled Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871), but it’s more commonly known as “Whistler’s Mother.” It’s a portrait of Anna Matilda McNeill …
Happy Birthday, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
At 2GreenEnergy, we routinely remind readers of the ideas put forth by the contemporary and historical political philosophers, insofar as, in general, their thoughts have great import on some of today’s most critical issues. We all have a great deal …
