"Lovelock has become concerned about the threat of global warming from the greenhouse effect. In 2004 he caused a media sensation when he broke with many fellow environmentalists by pronouncing that "only nuclear power can now halt global warming". In his view, nuclear energy is the only realistic alternative to fossil fuels that has the capacity to both fulfill the large scale energy needs of humankind while also reducing greenhouse emissions. He is an open member of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy."

He's got my vote!

Doesn't 'renaissance' suggest a keen appreciation of the historical context of ones studies. I suggest Stephen J Gould as a candidate..

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plenty of woo, at the hotel hoagaland...

Philo Farnsworth for better or worse the man changed the modern world
esp if you grant home computers would never have taken off with out the CRT
or the internet got near as big

Not the same Farnsworth who invented the smelloscope, right?

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

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