{"id":951,"date":"2009-03-15T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=951"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:50:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:50:43","slug":"origins-09-excitement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Origins ’09 excitement!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tallahassee Democrat has a feature article in their Living section about the big Origins ’09 event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among the Great Thinkers coming to FSU are (drum roll, please):<\/p>\n

— Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson;
\n— Harvard physicist and cosmologist Lisa Randall;
\n— Anthropologist Don Johanson, (co-finder of “Lucy,” one of the most famous fossils ever);
\n— Oxford historian Peter Harrison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The folks from “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” will be there, too.<\/p>\n

“The biggest issue in science today is restoring science to its rightful place and giving it the respect it used to have. It’s become too political.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a schedule of events<\/a> in the newspaper. There’s even a cool-sounding book fair<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The idea of a book fair can sound staid even to voracious readers. Truth be told, lots of writers aren’t all that thrilled with the idea of a book fair, either.<\/p>\n

Which is why when “Origins ’09” organizers at FSU dreamed up a book fair, they thought they’d do things differently. When it gets going Saturday afternoon on Kleman Plaza, the “Origins Book Fair” will feature 20 Florida writers going head-to-head in 5-minute, rapid-fire mini-shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, here is the link to the Origins ’09 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tallahassee Democrat has a feature article in their Living section about the big Origins ’09 event. Among the Great Thinkers coming to FSU are (drum roll, please): — Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and evolutionary biologist E.O. 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