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PHOTO: LEISE JONES By the early 1920s, an unlikely pair a powerful national newspaper publisher and a California-based zoologist decided that they d had enough. Enough of half-baked reporting on research results, enough of stories that left readers confused about even the basic principles of science. They wanted something better. They wanted reporting that encouraged a “scientific habit of mind,” a citizenry aware of the role of research in everyday life. However unlikely, the alliance between Edward Willis Scripps, founder of one of America s largest newspaper chains, and Harvard-trained zoologist William Emerson Ritter, ran deep. The two men shared a belief in science as the new century s most powerful transformative agent and also a belief that scientists were doing a poor job of communicating this. By April 1921, they d decided on a solution, a venture called Science Service, which would be dedicated to providing smart and positive science stories to the public. The organiz

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