SEFORA
“Today a group of scientists and concerned citizens launch a new organization, Scientists and Engineers for America, dedicated to electing public officials who respect evidence and understand the importance of using scientific and engineering advice in making public policy.”
I’ll poke around, check them out and then, if it’s all kosher, send them a couple of bucks. Science is battered and bruised in this country and that’s just got to stop.
String Theory is really weird conceptually. Honestly, some of it sounds like pure science fiction. I’d like to see us move back to four dimensions personally. That way my brain would hurt less when thinking about these things.
As an aside, let me say that Brian Greene has done an incredible job of making all of this stuff more accessible for the common man. He’s got a real knack for getting across super esoteric concepts that work best mathematically. That’s a talent…
This is the famous Richard Feynman lecture that is mentioned as being the seed for Nanotechnology.
I don’t know if he’s “mad” exactly, but he’s a big brain for certain and check out the look.
Evolution’s foes lose ground in Kansas - Future of Evolution
“Five of the 10 seats on the board were up for election in the primary, the latest skirmish in a seesawing battle between faith and science that has opened Kansas up to international ridicule.”