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In case you missed it
Here are some true science stories you may have missed during the past year, mostly drawn from the pages of the journal Science:
“The Astronomer” by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1668)
A way of knowing, ways of believing
“Science Finds God,” screamed the cover of Newsweek not long ago.
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Getting down to bedrock
In 1989, President’s Bush’s “America 2000” agenda set the goals of making US students first in the world in science and mathematics and ensuring that every adult American knew enough about science to participate responsibly in national debates about scientific issues.
Genetically modified mice with fluorescence • Ingrid Moen, et al (CC BY 2.0)
Glowing mice and other news we missed in ’97
Here are some science stories you may have missed this past year, gleaned from the pages of the journal Science.
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Not the place to find good science
“It’s the science, stupid,” said defense lawyer Barry Scheck at the Louise Woodward trial.
The artists Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon in 1989 • Photo by Boldstripe (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Make room for art amid the quarks
Michael Wenyon, with his collaborator Susan Gamble, is an artist-in-residence at MIT’s Haystack Radio Observatory in Westford, a place dotted with huge dish antennas that eavesdrop on radio frequency radiation washing through space.
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The beauty of science isn’t always abstract
OK, they’re young and gorgeous. No wonder University of Chicago dinosaur expert Paul Sereno and MIT computer scientist Pattie Maes were included in People magazine’s special issue on “The 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, 1997.”
“The School of Athens” by Raphael (ca. 1510)
Fleeing from freedom
It is almost a cliche to say that Western civilization was created by the Greeks. Our government, law, art, music, architecture, literature, drama, historiography, science, and mathematics are largely Greek inventions.
“Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk” by Leonardo da Vinci (ca. 1510)
The last lament of a renaissance man
I had come a long way to see him, across half of France, to the Castle of Cloux, near Amboise, in the valley of the Loire. He had been living there since 1516, at the invitation of Francis I, king of France.