Few people under 30 think about nothing but sex as evidenced by porno
websites. Few people between 30 and 60 think about nothing but money and
violence as evidenced by abc, cbs and nbc. television and newspapers.
Thar sorta leaves the ole guys at the Dime Box saloon short of conversation
except science, politics, sports and religion.
Richard
Harry wrote,
Subject: [Vo]:CBC Radio: "How to think about Science"
for listening:
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/thinkaboutscience_20080228_4849.mp3
"From time to time, researchers test the public’s understanding of
science. The public, predictably, turns out to be woefully ignorant:
20% think the moon is made of green cheese, 30% think an electron is
bigger than a molecule and so forth. But, for David Abram, this
demonstrably shaky grasp on the details misses the point. He thinks we
are conditioned by scientific understandings at a much deeper level,
and that the main effect of this conditioning is to make us distrust
our senses. For citizens of the republic of techno-science, he says,
the real world is not the one we can touch and taste – it is the one
that is disclosed by particle physics or radio astronomy. David Abram
is a teacher and a writer, whose book The Spell of the Sensuous has
been widely read and much praised. He believes that we ought to snap
out of our technological trance and, literally, come to our senses. He
shares his thoughts with Ideas producer David Cayley."
The above link is episode 12 of a 24 part series called _How To Think
About Science_produced by CBC radio. The complete series with audio
links is described here:
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86718
