I've decided to devote part of my daily bloglotment to promoting content on other platforms that I think you might enjoy. Which means I'm also starting another new hashtag #watchthis Watchthis is specifically for content that you found enlightening, uplifting and worth the time to watch.
For my first entry in this series I want to talk about Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil holds a PhD in Astrophysics and is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
In the last several years, he has gained major exposure by becoming the "voice of pop-sci" to the world.
However he's also a great lecturer and does an excellent job of making a myriad of topics imminently approachable.
In 2012 I purchased his lecture series "The Inexplicable Universe", and have always found it fascinating.
Recently someone posted it to youtube.
It's 3 hours long. It's fascinating to watch and it covers a broad range of topics. He goes really in depth into the history of science. Explaining where a lot of what we take for granted comes from. Having this knowledge helps you to understand a lot of scientific theories and more importantly how the scientific method works to help us to understand the world around us.
If you really enjoy it, I highly encourage you to purchase the entire series from "The Great Courses".
That way, he benefits from his excellent work and the person who ripped it and posted it to youtube doesn't.
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-inexplicable-universe-unsolved-mysteries.html
I hope you enjoy this video and please use the comments below to let me know if this kind of content as a regular feature is something you would like to see more of in the future!
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I think that anything could be called a "pseudo-religion".
Here's the truth though. Science and Religion are both "viewpoints".
They are subsets of a branch of critical thinking called "philosophy". In fact the proper and original name for science is "natural philosophy".
There are numerous branches of philosophy.
But religion and science are on diametrically opposite branches.
Religion explores the "why" of things and posits that the universe is best explained in meta-physical and spiritual terms. Generally by exploring the words of someone who God decided to speak to.
Science explores the "how" of things and posits that the universe is best explained by things which are quantifiable, measurable.
If something cannot be "quantified", it is not scientific, even if a scientist is telling it to you.
There's a lot of stuff passing for science that is in no way scientific. It is spiritualism or religion or general philosophy pretending to be science.
Here is what makes science, scientific.
If those 5 things are not present, you do not have science. You have some different branch of philosophy, but not actual science. You need the rigor of the scientific method in order to make a scientific claim.
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I'll add an important caveat to that --
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