and those around the World?

By Angry GenXer

HAVANA TIMES – With GPS and Google Maps, no one seems to need paper maps anymore. Instead of books and other long reads, there are TikTok reels and social media threads.

GPS works thanks to Astronomy, the letters in tweets were invented by the Phoenicians, and maps were once used to find hidden treasures.

The widespread technologies we use and the social processes we experience operate with keys that, if we stop understanding their scientific and historical bases, will inevitably become secret codes. In other words, we will live in a magical world. I don’t use “magical” as a cute metaphor, like pink unicorns. The magicians will be the ones in control. Or maybe they already are.

After all, you ask anyone about the source of the Sun’s energy, and they don’t know—but they surely know their astrological sign.

The Decline of Scientific Content

The trend of eroding educational content in schools became evident to me in high school when, in my year, the subject of Astronomy was permanently removed. That hurt, and I didn’t understand why: I wanted to learn about........

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