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This morning, fate handed me a big fat honking rose on a gold platter...kinda.

The Richard Dawkins Foundation channel on YouTube posted a lecture by Carolyn Porco (who is, incidentally, on whom Carl Sagan told Jodie Foster to model her performance in the movie Contact) on science in Hollywood, and how scientists are portrayed ( Read more... )

I really enjoy pseudo-intellectual, scientific/sociological discussions over beverages...you know, coffeehouse blather. Granted, tonight's was held at the Mercury's pool room instead of a coffeeshop, but hey ( Read more... )

Day #3: Seven seconds of Pure Awesome™...

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I got into Richard Dawkins by way of rabid atheism, but he's actually a biologist by trade/training. And he gave a talk on the origin of life at the Edinburgh Book festival, covering some truly amazing subjects, from panspermia to exobiology to forms of life not based on carbon; it's a fascinating set of subjects ( Read more... )