On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 11:01:41AM -0300, MAX wrote: > At 06:20 AM 24/07/98 -0400, Mark H. Hunt wrote: > > Let's see....Take my mind back to high school physics > >class....hmmm....OK I'm there....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....ah refreshing. Thanks > > I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Thanx Mark! Y'know, I don't find this nearly as funny. At least here in the US, we now live in a society with an aversion to science. Those who seek to understand it are labeled as nerds and categorized as boring, while pseudoscientic crap like UFOlogy and psychic power fascinates the masses. As a consequence, even though we have incredible wealth and luxury here, we also have a population that's astonishingly illiterate in the basics of science (and mathematics). The pity of it all is that real science is far more beautiful and fascinating than any of the lurid alternatives put forward by the fanatical, the greedy, and the deceptive. There are very real, profound, and dire consequences to this societal ignorance, as Carl Sagan illustrates in his wonderful book, "The Demon-Haunted World" -- which I strongly recommend to everyone. It's very different from his other books ("Broca's Brain", "The Dragons of Eden", 'Cosmos", etc.) and may be the best thing he's ever written. ---Rsk Rich Kulawiec rsk_at_gsp.org *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jul 24 1998 - 07:38:39 PDT
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