November 6 is UNESCO’s International day against violence and bullying at school including cyberbullying
November 9 is Sagan Day, celebrating the 91st anniversary of the birth of Carl Sagan. Many of our readers are familiar with Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World, co-written with his spouse Ann Druyan, published in 1995 (a year before his untimely death). A chillingly prophetic quote:
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…”
…Carl Sagan
November 10 is the UN’s World Science Day for Peace and Development
November 20 is Canada’s National Child Day and Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 24 marks 166 years since the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
November 25 marks the start of Canada’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
50 years ago:
November 10: SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior
100 years ago:
14 November 1925: Birth of dissident Soviet scientist Zhores Medvedev, who challenged the government-supported, pseudoscientific work of T.D. Lysenko
NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (1980s). Carl Sagan at The Planetary Society [Photograph]. Public Domain (U.S.). Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Sagan_Planetary_Society.JPG