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WillParkinson

(16,862 posts)
Fri May 18, 2012, 12:31 PM May 2012

10 Cool Discoveries You Should Know About

http://www.alternet.org/world/155483/10_cool_discoveries_you_should_know_about

On Science Friday last week, Ira Flatow reported on a grassroots group of scientists and science advocates calling for a presidential science debate. After all, what do politicians actually know about scientific issues they want to be able to influence?

Good question, and one that makes us think about the importance of the sciences in our lives.

Science represents hope. It’s scientists -- not lawyers or talking heads -- who are providing preventive healthcare research, advances in communication and will work in the jobs that not only make people excited about the future but make them feel like there is a future. This week we touch on all those things as well as a couple of finds that are just beautiful or bizarre, that advance only our sense of wonder and “WTF?” because those are important, too. What influences action if not imagination…and appreciation? Here are 10 interesting and important discoveries made this week.

http://www.alternet.org/world/155483/10_cool_discoveries_you_should_know_about
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10 Cool Discoveries You Should Know About (Original Post) WillParkinson May 2012 OP
Hmm. A debate where you get political answers to scientific questions. immoderate May 2012 #1
Just another attempt by the liberal media to make conservatives look bad. eppur_se_muova May 2012 #2
 

immoderate

(20,885 posts)
1. Hmm. A debate where you get political answers to scientific questions.
Fri May 18, 2012, 12:56 PM
May 2012

Should be entertaining.

But the one who'll get the most votes, is the one with the most faith in god! This is America.

--imm

eppur_se_muova

(36,227 posts)
2. Just another attempt by the liberal media to make conservatives look bad.
Fri May 18, 2012, 01:58 PM
May 2012

Because nothing makes conservatives look more brain-dead than trying to argue about topics where facts trump ideology.

Let us not forget: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x130998

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