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I am actually at a loss. When you open a news paper or turn on the radio, you hear of celebrity gossip, famous entertainers, football players etc etc - and you can find incredible amounts of information out about them.
I want you to take a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Adams
This man improved lasers so much that CD's could be available to the mass market and lasers could be used for scanning barcodes. Which of course led to countless other things (Bluray, DVD's). It is a crying shame that this man has only 2 lines of text about him on Wikipedia, when he's done so much for the world.
I continue to be frustrated at the site of 100 different magazines on how to put lipstick on or, what people are doing on "The only way is Essex": but yet there is seldom a single magazine on science; one of the only things that is actually changing the world...
The thing is, scientists like Alf do not mind - they love what they do. We must also celebrate doctors, nurses, charity workers, emergency services too... I would simply like to see a world where the real movers and shakers are reported.
Anyway, that is my 2 pence about that - this is more on how I feel, although unrelated!! :P...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE
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