[NEWS] Three clashes of ideologies: Sagan on religion and science, peace poppy, Russia and the West

[rfmcdonald]

• Christopher Douglas writes at The Conversation about how the Carl Sagan novel Contact explores Sagan's own perspective on the relationship between religion and science.


• I'm not at all sure I agree with the argument of Rob Breakenridge that the "peace poppy", the white poppy preferred by some anti-war protesters, tarnishes Remembrance Day. Global News has the report


• Leonid Bershidsky argues that the involvement of Putin's Russia in Western politics is best understood as a strategy to undermine the credibility of these institutions and countries. (Continental Europe is doing better than the US and UK.) Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-10/putin-s-trolling-of-the-west-is-not-just-a-tactic'><U>has it</u></a>.</li> </ul>