back in 1967, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

and from that time on it has been debated whether the song's
title and imagery were inspired by Lennon's experience with the
psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, or simply, LSD

check out the video below for John's story regarding Lucy's
origin and reference



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an "-ism" is a suffix that,

denotes a distinctive system of beliefs, myth, doctrine or theory that guides a social movement, institution, class or group.
-wikipedia

and an individual has certainly achieved a loftly status
when he or she is credited with the creation of an "-ism"

in the video below, John Lennon describes an "-ism"
attributed to him in the late 1960s



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can any single number hold the distinction of being
the "Most Important Number In The Universe"?

physicist and author Simon Singh argues that a
good case can be made for a number called Big G
the gravitational constant

in his BBC Radio 4 documentary,
6.67 x 10^-11 – the number that defines the universe,
Dr. Singh points out that if Big G were just a little bit
larger or smaller, "life, the universe and everything
simply wouldn't exist"

for more on Big G and Dr. Singh's contention, check out
the video below; it features excerpts from the BBC Radio 4
documentary, which can be heard in full here



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in the video below, astronomer Carl Sagan, traces events
from the time of the Big Bang to the formation of Life

and he manages to do so, with his brand of poetry,
in only 3 1/2 minutes



the above is an excerpt from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,

first broadcast by in 1980, the 13-episode Cosmos was
American public television's most watched series

it remained so for a decade, and today is regarded
as one of the all time geat science documentaries

in the video below, humorist and author Jean Shepherd
pokes fun at advertisers who use sexual innuendo to
push their products

he also chides us, the viewing public, for our blindness
to the fact that we are being seduced