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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-01-20:

"An alien anthropologist, armed with only our bestseller lists, might conclude that detectives rule the earth. This alien could easily inspect novels for months and never work out that humans do scientific research...If fiction is a mirror held up to our culture, scientists are its vampires. They lurk in the shadows, casting no reflection." -- Jennifer Rohn, from a PODium editorial in the Nature Podcast for January 17, 2008, bemoaning the fact that our popular culture has very few good fictional representations of scientists doing believable science.

[ http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/archivetranscripts.html]

(Submitted to the mailing list by John S. Karabaic)

[This is a kind of busy date, not to be summed up in the theme of a single quotation. To my fellow Americans, happy Father's Day. To folks celebrating on the Orthodox Christian calendar, blessed Pentecost. To dmk, happy birthday. To scientists, happy anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment ... and Edward Muggeridge's proof that all four of a horses hooves leave the ground at once during a gallop. And to anyone who has benefited from living in a country ruled by some form of constitutional law, happy anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta.]