George Clooney used to copy my haircuts.People who knew me in the 1990s always marveled at my classic, parted-on-the-side, immaculately coiffed style. It was retro, just like the term "marvelous' is today. Prior to that, I had a classic Caesar no-part look. He showed up in the television show "E.R." sporting that and I dismissed it as coincidence but when he then jumped onto my "Mad Men without...
read moreIf you watched the movie “Ocean’s 12”, you may recall a scene where George Clooney and Brad Pitt (well, their characters – but you always know you are watching George Clooney and Brad Pitt) can’t sleep and are watching “Happy Days” reruns – in Italian. At one point Clooney says “That guy doing Potsie is unbelievable” – referring...
read moreDr. Anne Glover, chief scientific adviser to the president of the European Commission, was a welcome event for the science community when she got that job. Perhaps Europe would finally revisit the Science Enlightenment, and stop finding experts to endorse whatever polls say science policy should be.It hasn't been easy. She has been targeted by both Greens and her boss for supporting the...
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You'd think Hawaii would be really supportive of science.Without genetic modification and the GMO Rainbow papaya crop, papaya on Hawaii would be extinct due to the ringspot virus, but everyone in Hawaii hates science. Naked girls sell calendars of cheesecake under the pretense that it will save Hawaii from science, a politician drafted a bill to ban all GMOs except the GMO Rainbow...
read moreScience 2.0 fave Ora TV has a fun show-you-should be-watching-if-you-are-not-already-watching called Dweebcast, where host Andy Riesmeyer covers all things nerd. They have begun a new segment called The Science Of Sci-Fi, and they asked Science 2.0 to help pick the perfect person to talk about...human cloning: Joanne Manaster, Lecturer in Biology at the University of Illinois and all-around...
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