The San Francisco Weekly
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
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Based on the title, the group lecture "Science Is Sexy" seems to have a definitive answer to the question that’s plagued geeks since the time of Newton. Let’s see if you agree: Is Michael Chorost’s life with a cochlear implant — essentially a computer embedded in his skull that allows him to hear — sexy? How about Michael Pollan’s ethics of eating, revealed in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, or David Ewing Duncan’s feelings on the biotech scare, shared in The Geneticist Who Played Hoops With My DNA? Perhaps. But an atom bomb — that definitely sizzles, and so does participant Richard Rhodes, whose book The Making of the Atomic Bomb won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award. These authors and more appear at 6:30 p.m. at the Commonwealth Club, 595 Market (at Second Street), S.F. Admission is $7-18; call 597-6701 or visit www.commonwealthclub.org.