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http://auroraforum.stanford.edu/event/against-ignorance-science-education-21s... Sun, 9th Mar, 2008. Memorial Auditorium: "Against Ignorance: Science Education in the 21st Century" Office: Aurora Forum at Stanford University, 425 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
The rise of religiously motivated threats to scientific practice and instruction in American schools has motivated Dawkins & Krauss to engage in a public dialogue on strategies for science education in the 21st century.
RICHARD DAWKINS, at the time, was the Charles Simonyi Professor in the Public Understanding of Science, at the University of Oxford. He's an ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who first came to prominence with his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to the science of evolution with the theory presented in The Extended Phenotype that phenotypic effects are not limited to an organism's body but can stretch far into the environment, including into the bodies of other organisms. He has since written several best-selling popular books, and appeared in a number of television and radio programs, concerning evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. His many prizes include the International Cosmos Prize, the Nakayama Prize for Human Science and the Shakespeare Prize for Distinguished Contributions to British Culture. The author of The God Delusion, he is an outspoken atheist, secular humanist, and sceptic. In 2006 he created the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
http://richarddawkins.net/
LAWRENCE KRAUSS
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss
Quote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Krauss
Web Page: http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/
CV: http://genesis1.asu.edu/cv.htm
BOOKS & BIO: http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-M.-Krauss/e/B000AP7AZS
"I was born in New York City and shortly afterward moved to Toronto, spending my childhood in Canada. I received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from Carleton University, and my Ph.D. from MIT in 1982.
After a stint in the Harvard Society of Fellows, I became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1985 and Associate Professor in 1988. I moved in 1993 to become Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy, and Chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University In August 2008 I joined the faculty at Arizona State University as Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Director of the University's Origins Initiative. In 2009 we inaugurated this this initiative with the Origins Symposium [www.origins.asu.edu] in which 80 of the world's leading scientists participated, and 3000 people attended.
I write regularly for national media, including The New York Times, the Wall St. Journal, Scientific American (for which I wrote a regular column last year), and other magazines, as well as doing extensive work on radio and television. I am strongly committed to public understanding of science, and have helped lead the national effort to preserve sound science teaching, including the teaching of evolution. I also served on Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign science policy committee. In 2008 I became co-chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and in 2010 was elected to the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Scientists.
My research focuses on the beginning and end of the Universe. Among my contributions to the field of cosmology, I helped lead the search for dark matter, and first proposed the existence of dark energy in 1995
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