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Our Education and Outreach department is having a "journal club" meeting on this article next Wednesday, and I'm very much looking forward to the discussion, and any comments online.
Cheers -Carlyn
Carlyn S. Buckler, Ph.D.
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--- On Wed, 3/31/10, Dana Hutchins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: NY Times article
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Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 9:19 AM
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I'm interested in reactions & comments to this NY Times article mentioned in
latest ASTC Scans.
The Thrill of Science, Tamed by Agendas
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18SCIENCE.html?sq=museums
%20special%20section&st=cse&scp=2&adxnnlx=1270036850-sM/C0CWl7aQLLyiRfjunYA&
pagewanted=all
Especially interested in any comments on this paragraph:
"Of course, the insignificance of human existence is one of the fearsome
lessons of modern science. But when we are young, we learn differently. We
begin by learning to value our own understanding and only gradually come to
recognize its limits. We begin by making sense of the world before we see
how much lies beyond sense. The process doesn¹t work well in the other
direction: we can be left mystified by the world and lose respect for the
human."
Dana
Dana Hutchins
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