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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=662132022-15032009>I forgot to wish
everyone happy pi day yesterday.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P>ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2009) — Are Americans flunking science? A new national
survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences and conducted by
Harris Interactive® reveals that the U.S. public is unable to pass even a basic
scientific literacy test. ...</P>
<P>According to the national survey commissioned by the California Academy of
Sciences:</P>
<P>* Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around
the Sun.</P>
<P>* Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live
at the same time.</P>
<P>* Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth’s
surface that is covered with water.</P>
<P>* Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.</P>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>We have designed our civilization based on
science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no
one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear
prescription for disaster.<SPAN class=662132022-15032009> Carl Sagan,
1995</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Not only do we not understand the universe, if
someone explained it to us, we wouldn’t know what he was talking about.<SPAN
class=662132022-15032009> </SPAN>— <EM>Isaac
Asimov</EM></FONT></FONT></P></SPAN></FONT>
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<DIV><SPAN class=662132022-15032009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Grey goo
humor:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dYPnui3rM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dYPnui3rM</A></FONT></DIV>
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