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Benny the Ball

17:14 / 14.05.05

Damn, of course, Fuller! He's another "biography" standing by to be read.

sleazenation

23:28 / 14.05.05

or indeed a biography to write... come on people - it isn't enough just to list names, make as case for these people underlining what achievements/contributions that made to make them science heroes. It doesn't have to be reams... it's probably best to keep it brief in fact, Think of it like a maths paper and show your workings in the margin...

Mirror

15:52 / 15.05.05

What?? Nobody has mentioned Sagan yet?

I think that Carl Sagan was my #2 influence (behind my parents) in terms of getting me excited about science as a little kid. Cosmos was cool.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:50 / 15.05.05

William Dampier...

Wonderful naturalist, apparently the first Westerner to eat lime pickle, inventor of the word "sub-species"... (also introduced to the English language "barbecue" and "avocado")...

Apparently Darwin regarded him very highly, and Dampier's writings were among the few texts he took with him to the Galapgos (Dampier, being supercool, having been there before)...

Oh, and he was a pirate, too.

delta

10:11 / 16.05.05

I think the morality of science might be a whole new thread. It's not really the kind of thing you tack on to a conversation as an afterthought!

grant

14:48 / 16.05.05

That Dampier was a dedicated buccaneer is of some dispute, and it has been reasonably expressed that he merely found pirate ships and company a convenient way to travel.

AHahahahahaha!

Man, that guy... YES! YES!!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:46 / 17.05.05

I recently read this biography of him, and, as I believe the young people today say, he totally rocks.

grant

15:07 / 17.05.05

Wishlisted!

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