BSA Presidential Address 2009

LDS: Botany in 2009

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day
Saints
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Snowbird
Utah

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Mycology
Fungi
Claviceps
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www2.slac.stanford.edu
SLAC
Large
Detector

Long
Damn
Speech

LDS: Botany in 2009

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Patent number 6469

1863
National Academy of Sciences
“to investigate, examine, experiment and report upon any subject of science or art”

1609
Galileo
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5912/326

1859:
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جامعةالقرويي
University of al-Qarawiyyin
759:

Climate change
Biodiversity loss
Emerging diseases
Personal genomics
Nanotechnology

Scientific literacy
“[T]he knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity.”
National Science Education Standards: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses

1959: C. P. Snow
The Two Cultures
“Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension….”
www.age-of-the-sage.org

Is it “their” problem?

1959: C. P. Snow
The Two Cultures
“Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension—sometimes hostility.”
www.age-of-the-sage.org

Mutual incomprehension
Educate

Science knowledge

Educate

Educate
Engage

Engage

Is it “their” problem?

2009
“If the modern operators of Wedgwood…had shown a tenth of Josiah’s intuitive grasp, his flair, his zest for selling, it would not now be dying.”
Judith Flanders, New York Times, 9 January 2009

Educate
Engage

Educate
Engage
Listen

Logos: the argument itself
Ethos: the character of the speaker
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Logos: the argument itself
Ethos: the character of the speaker
Pathos: the emotions of the listener
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Global climate change
Biodiversity loss
Emerging diseases
Personal genomics
Nanotechnology

The world needs science
and scientists!

BSA Presidential Address 2009

by Kent Holsinger on Aug 04, 2009

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