As this Wired magazine article, and in general, related Science and Technology news are often discussed simultaneously on Wired, Slashdot, BoingBoing and many Weblogs, we decided to post this on Slashdot, and MetaFilter, and would also invite contributions from readers here - although you may have seen it already. We would really like to organize a highly educated, open minded community on internet and bring them closer to scientists who are doing the original research. Some of the questions raised may also tie in nicely with Megnut's ideas related to money and blogging - see the discussion about that on Blogroots

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