There was a sensational headline today: "Galileo's lost body parts found". Aye!!! What a great day for science!
The same day when the Large Hadron Collider reopened after 14 months, which of course is a headline you'll have to search to find.
Forget the question of why staring at or owning the middle finger of Galileo would give anyone any appreciation of his talents or contributions, why that would make them feel connected to him, as opposed to say, reading his work. Even more basically, why do we fuss about the dead bodies of dead people? I can understand the sentiment immediately following the death, when we still see them as the person we knew. But after they are long gone, is there any meaning to the dead body parts?
Friday, November 20, 2009
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