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Related: About this forum10 Cool Discoveries You Should Know About
http://www.alternet.org/world/155483/10_cool_discoveries_you_should_know_aboutOn 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. Its 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
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Just another attempt by the liberal media to make conservatives look bad.
eppur_se_muova
May 2012
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immoderate
(20,885 posts)1. Hmm. A debate where you get political answers to scientific questions.
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.
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