8 May 2003 by Kimberly
I’m on the CSICOP email list, and this just came through. (Center for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal or something like that. They publish Skeptical Inquirer magazine. This just came through. Looks interesting.
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1) Media Annoucement
Last month, PBS began airing a new 15-episode program, “Closer to the Truth:
Science Meaning and the Future” which airs every Sundays (check your local
listings to confirm times).
Several prominent CSICOP fellows will be appearing on upcoming episodes and
we’ll keep you up to date as these episodes appear. This Sunday’s (May 11)
episode is themed “How Does Order Arise in the Universe?” Two Nobel
laureates one of them CSICOP fellow Murray Gell-Mann will take on the big
questions.
This episode explores one of the greatest challenges facing science at the
beginning of the 21st century: How do we account for the evolution of the
universe, an evolution that includes the appearance of life on earth, when
we know that the universe relentlessly moves towards a state of disorder?
Both guests, each a Nobel laureate, contend that much of the knowledge being
uncovered today depends on a new set of trans-disciplinary skills that unify
the sciences once again. Integration has already lead to more practical
problem solving, such as the search for a cure for AIDS.
Gell-Mann is a Nobel Laureate in Physics; Distinguished Fellow and
Co-Chairman of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute; Emeritus Professor of
Physics, California Institute of Technology; and author of “The Quark and
the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.”
The other guest is David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine;
President, and Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology;
Chairman, AIDS Vaccine Research Committee, NIH; founding director, Whitehead
Institute for Biological Research, MI.
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