By adamg on Fri., 3/7/2025 - 2:52 pm 

Ron Newman attended the rally for science on Boston Common today.


Of course, it wouldn't be a Boston rally without a Dunk's reference:

The crowd:

Eight years ago, the rally was in Copley Square.
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16th or 17th Century?
By what what now?
Fri, 03/07/2025 - 3:52pm
The 16th century was the 1500s
Do you mean the 17th century when this country got started?
16th
By adamg
Fri, 03/07/2025 - 5:52pm
Because they knew about inoculation in the 17th century, at least on the fringes of the Western world.
The 17th century was the birth of the scientific method
By jmeltzer
Fri, 03/07/2025 - 6:27pm
with Newton, Descartes, Pascal, Boyle, Leeuwenhoek, Hooke, Harvey, and many more.
And the scientific revolution
By SamWack
Sat, 03/08/2025 - 8:06am
Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, in which he announced his discoveries of the mountains of the Moon, the moons of Jupiter, and the resolution of the Milky Way into individual stars, was published in 1610. Francis Bacon's Novum Organum, which was one of the first attmpts to formalize the scientific method, was published in 1620. In 1637 René Descartes published the Discourse on Method, which, among many, many other things, includes an appendix called La Géométrie, in which the methods of what we now call Analytic Geometry are introduced, including the Cartesian plane. In 1687 Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the most influential of all scientific publications. There were important scientific developments in the 16th century - the theories and observations of Copernicus, for example - but the 17th century is when the floodgates burst, and rumors of a revolution became a revolution indeed.
For some reason
By jmeltzer
Sat, 03/08/2025 - 9:24am
I thought Galileo and Kepler were more 16th century. Wrong, wrong, wrong. 17th.
Galileo and Newton
By SamWack
Sun, 03/09/2025 - 9:05am
Galileo died in 1642, the year Isaac Newton was born. I always find that a useful memory aid.
That was 8 years ago, not 4!
By serene_lovelace
Fri, 03/07/2025 - 4:07pm
That was 8 years ago, not 4!
And it was in Copley Square back then
By Ron Newman
Fri, 03/07/2025 - 4:17pm
not the Common
Wow, a twofer
By adamg
Fri, 03/07/2025 - 5:54pm
Both mistakes in a single sentence fixed.
I would attend a rally for
By Frelmont
Fri, 03/07/2025 - 5:01pm
I would attend a rally for science, even social science.
THESE are patriots
By Gary C
Sat, 03/08/2025 - 12:02am
I'm out of town, or I would have been right there with them. It's sad that we have to take to the streets to maintain a normal society.
That Dunks sign
By crispino
Sat, 03/08/2025 - 8:27am
was an instant image save. Excellent.
I'm ashamed to say I didn't know about this beforehand. I was proud to go to the last one which yes was in Copley - the notice for it was so badass I was prompted to save it as well.
Looks like a nice focused protest
By deselby
Sat, 03/08/2025 - 12:26pm
They stayed on a message and apparently the kooks weren't there.
More like this.
Tomorrow in SF at big HIV/AIDS conference
By mg
Sun, 03/09/2025 - 11:06pm
This week the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), which is the big U.S. HIV/AIDS scientific conference, is meeting in SF so their science rally will be Monday evening. Wish I could be there.
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