Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science educator. Sagan advocated scientific skeptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology, and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies. […]
As early as 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, Irena began aiding Jews. Initially she and her helpers created more than 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families avoid detention, and then later organized the smuggling of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Sendler was a registered nurse, and under the pretext of conducting […]
Born in 1511, Servetus was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist credited with discovering the correct workings of human pulmonary circulation. He wrote a book outlining his discovery, along with a few avant garde ideas about reforming Christianity (he was openly critical of both the concept of original sin and the church’s invented […]
Born in 1856, Shaw was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer. Nearly all his works & writings address prevailing social problems, doing so most often with a vein of comedy which made their stark themes a bit easier to contemplate. Among the issues upon which Shaw focused were education, animal rights, religion, […]
Both born in 1941, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel became an American music duo in 1957, though they first rose to fame & adoration in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single “The Sound of Silence”. Their music was also featured in the landmark film The Graduate in 1967, further propelling them into […]
Clive Stafford Smith is a British civil rights attorney who currently works diligently to dismantle the death penalty in the United States of America; helping to overturn death sentences for nearly 300 convicts. He also helped to found both the non-profit Louisiana Capital Assistance Center in New Orleans and the Gulf Region Advocacy Center in […]
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