{"id":965,"date":"2009-03-22T08:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T12:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=965"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:33:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:33:38","slug":"you-might-not-think-so-but-people-love-to-talk-about-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"“You might not think so, but people love to talk about science.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

NPR’s Science Friday<\/a> was in Tallhassee last week for Origins ’09<\/a>. It’s great to see positive reports<\/a> coming out of this whole event.<\/p>\n

Origins ’09 has been a success since its debut Tuesday, with standing-room-only crowds attending the events.<\/p>\n

Flatow wasn’t surprised. Talking before his show, he said science is more popular than many people realize.<\/p>\n

“We regularly draw huge crowds,” he said. “You might not think so, but people love to talk about science.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

E.O. Wilson will be talking tonight<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes called the Atticus Finch of science, Wilson will be speaking Monday night (8 p.m., free and open to the public) about one of his favorite topics, Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n

While Darwin, whose 200th birthday is being recognized this year at venues across the nation, was dead set against religious thinking affecting science, the 79-year-old Wilson has been working tirelessly to find common ground for academics and evangelicals.<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a planet to be saved, Wilson reasons, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re all in this together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR’s Science Friday was in Tallhassee last week for Origins ’09. It’s great to see positive reports coming out of this whole event. Origins ’09 has been a success since its debut Tuesday, with standing-room-only crowds attending the events. 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