10 Cool Discoveries You Should Know About
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On Science Friday last week, Ira Flatow reported on a grassroots group of scientists and science advocates calling for a presidential science debate. After all, what do politicians actually know about scientific issues they want to be able to influence?
Good question, and one that makes us think about the importance of the sciences in our lives.
Science represents hope. Its scientists -- not lawyers or talking heads -- who are providing preventive healthcare research, advances in communication and will work in the jobs that not only make people excited about the future but make them feel like there is a future. This week we touch on all those things as well as a couple of finds that are just beautiful or bizarre, that advance only our sense of wonder and WTF? because those are important, too. What influences action if not imagination
and appreciation? Here are 10 interesting and important discoveries made this week.
http://www.alternet.org/world/155483/10_cool_discoveries_you_should_know_about