Hi kathie. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. I enjoyed your book. Thank you. I would like to start this interview by talking a little bit about you. I also would like the audience to hear the story which honestly which really offended me. Which is in your introduction. You got a note from a professor claiming he would never be a political scientist. Can you say little bit about that . Speech i put that in the book because when i was in college i struggled with what i wanted to major in. I wanted about going into science, humanities or social science. And i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting comment engaging in urgent for me. My First Political science course we read all of the great political philosophers from plato on up. They were all asking the question, what is justice . What is Good Government . How can you organize a government and organize society to make life better for people. Particularly to make justice. So, i end
I am doctor mario, i am an astrophysicist and author of seven Popular Science books. The most recent of which is called galileo and the science deniers. I live in baltimore and i currently am in baltimore at my home. As you can see i can imagine them shelves books. Actually i have some things that look like that in every room in the house. To it almost does not matter where i am. So the book as i say is called galileo in the science deniers. This is a fresh biography of galileo. But at the same time with eye on science denial today which unfortunately we have the idea is to study from this fascinating person in the 17th century. But to see what lessons we can learn from that for you know to what extent there is some sense already fought some battles that we have to fight again today. So, when people hear i wrote a book about galileo and it next question how come i decided to write a book about galileo given their already quite a few biographies of galileo. There are several reasons. Th
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