"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. ...The plain lesson is that study and learning – not just of science, but of anything – are avoidable and even undesirable.”
--Carl Sagan, "Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark"
Hi Pete!
At the last HFCF meeting there was a table with free books donated by you. A very nice thought. I helped myself to three – the Shanks book, an Asimov book and one about the Cretaceous. I regard them as loans and will be happy to pass them on to anyone else who would like to read them.
Your place looks great – hope the adventure is still going well.
Regards to you both,
Alan