“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time-when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a ( Read more... )

Growing up, the usual response I got from kids - but also some adults - when I told them I was born in Australia, was ( Read more... )

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Let me clue you in to the banal wonders of the universe again, you drunken separatist...

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