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Cool Science Reminders We're Living in The Great Renaissance

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Oct 14, 2009

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I’ll be posting my long-delayed appraisal of the movie Surrogates, shortly. But meanwhile, here’s a raft of links and other cool items that remind us that -- despite efforts to turn civilization toward know-nothing foolishness, we still live in an era of enlightenment and wonders.

See Shawn Otto -- one of the driving forces behind the science Debate 2008 endeavor to lift the national and worldwide awareness of science as a driver of public policy, address the 2009 Nobel Conference.

See a marvelous series of cartoon satires of “caveman dire-warning sci fi” -- especially if there had been a paleolithic Michael Crichton.

COOL STUFF

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