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SciTechDaily's Story
The Team: Vicki Hyde, Amie LaRouche, Closer to Truth
SciTechDaily Review was founded in late 1998 as a labour of love, when the irrepressible Denis Dutton of Arts & Letters Daily fame badgered a friend into making a sister site. The idea was to link to the most thought-provoking, well researched online items in the world of science and technology.
The New York Times coined a new term for it - a "porthole" site, where the view is concentrated into a specific area of interest, and said that this approach represented a major new Internet trend. Not bad for a site that had been online at that stage for three days!
Two years on and SciTechDaily was lucky enough to find a marriage of like minds in the form of the Caltech-based Closer to Truth initiative. An alliance was formed to boldly go forth and spread the word of the role of science and technology in society. It'll be more than a five-year mission….
eppur si muove?
It's what Galileo is alleged to have said on going into house arrest -- "but it does move...."
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Vicki Hyde, Founder and Managing Editor
SciTechDaily Managing Editor Vicki Hyde keeps an eye on the Webby competition.
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I'm a sucker for promoting a greater understanding of science and technology and the part it plays in our lives. It started with science fairs at school, and has been a part of my life ever since.
I spent ten years editing, publishing and posting our country's only general interest science magazine, the New Zealand Science Monthly. I've headed the NZ Skeptics for almost as long, and been a supporter of groups like the NZ Association of Scientists, the Association of Women in Science, and a whole host of others. I've talked to school children, conferences and service groups by the truckload about why they need to know about science.
You might think it's a crazy role for someone who's never actually been a scientist, but I get a delight out of discovery. That's why SciTechDaily, and its part in the Closer to Truth science discourse initiative, means a lot to me. As a society, whether it's New Zealand or New England, we need to understand where we are going and the best way to get there.
What I really want to do is fly through Mars' Valles Marineris. Though these days I'd settle for getting into orbit (anyone got some spare millions?).
Onward, ever onward, Vicki
Amie LaRouche, Editor
SciTechDaily Editor Amie LaRouche taking time out of Web surfing to have fun with Jacob at a local medieval group event.
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I get to do the daily story hunting and teaser writing for SciTechDaily. It can be an agonising choice at times because so much of science today is wrapped up in social and political issues. Agonising, but always interesting.
In some ways, it's those social aspects which interest me the most. After all, that's going to affect my life more significantly than the mere act of discovery. I've got a vested interest in that - he's called Jacob and I'm having a lot of fun home-schooling him. He's the reason I do a lot of my surfing at night, and why I'm grateful to those SciTechDaily fans who send in suggested story links and recommend sites.
(Keep it up!)
Amie
Closer to Truth
CLOSER TO TRUTH: Science, Meaning and the Future is a PBS television series where some of the world's most esteemed experts, including Nobel laureates, best-selling authors, and renowned scholars, engage in a series of spontaneous and intimate conversations that combine hard facts with an inspiring - and breathtaking - look into our future.
Explore the show's diverse questions
Read the thought-provoking interview with series creator Dr Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Check out the new CTT Website
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