The Swedish Skeptics have received the 2012 Harry Martinson Memorial Prize from his birth municipality Olofström and the Harry Martinson Society. Martinson, a Nobel laureate, was a poet and prose writer who is particularly well known for his book-length science fiction epic poem Aniara. As chairman of the Swedish Skeptics I was invited down to Blekinge province where I spent Friday looking at archaelogy and doing some metal detecting with my colleague Mikael Henriksson from the County Museum -- and on Saturday morning I delivered an acceptance speech and a talk (in Swedish) on Martinson's relationship to science and popular enlighenment.
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Brian C. Martinson has written an excellent commentary that appears in the 13 September issue of Nature.
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Congratulations on an excellent speach! You really manage to fullfill the role of a true "folkbildare" and you connect a very wide context to the occasion. Everyone who understands Swedish should be given an opportunity to listen to this. In a simple way you have explained what true scientific and true humanistic understanding really is. I have never heard a more clear or simpler explanation on these matters.
Jan
Thank you! Most kind!
Good job! Congratulations.
(Off-topic but hilarious!) http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/06/what-the-hell-is-this/
"matter-based" Darwinism? Einstein's field theory completed????