Over 6,000 viewer of this 18 minute clip of Prof Dr Carl Sagan’s talk on Climate Change from 1990 and my YOUTUBE channel. But it’s far more than 18 minutes. It is a prescient rebuke to those who are in climate denial to this very day!
王贞仪老师 Wáng Zhēnyí Laoshí 王貞儀老师 (1768–1797) – Our Logo/Avatar, was a scientist of the Qing dynasty who breached feudal customs of the old China which hindered women's rights and worked to educate herself in astronomy, mathematics, and geography. In her twenties, we know she took up poetry, as well, for the suffering of the Chinese peasants weighed on her. "Village is empty of cooking smoke, Rich families let grains stored decay; In wormwood strewed pitiful starved bodies, Greedy officials yet push the farm levy." Also this poem on the role of women in society, " It’s made to believe, Women are same as Men; Are you not convinced, Daughters can also be heroic?” ©M42 Orion Nebula from the balcony, Dr. Kenneth M Beck: 15 second exposure ISO 16,000, f/10 FL2350mm.
