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Margaret Wertheim
Margaret Wertheim
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Margaret Wertheim is a science writer and commentator who contributes to the Los Angeles Times and New York Times and pens the Quark Soup column for the LA Weekly. Margaret is the author of several books including "Pythagoras' Trousers," a history of the relationship between physics and religion, and "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A Cultural History of Space from Dante to the Internet."

Margaret has written and produced a dozen televsion documentaries, including "Catalyst," a six part series about science and technology for teenage girls, and "Faith and Reason" a PBS special about science and religion.

She is the founder and director of the Institute For Figuring, an organization devoted to enhancing the public understanding of science, mathematics and the technical arts (www.theiff.org). She is currently working on a book about the role of imagination in theoretical physics.

Blog Entries by Margaret Wertheim

The End of Faith?

Posted February 28, 2006 | 09:23 PM (EST)

Here is a story about the Catholic Church and liberal activism, a story that suggests the two forces are not the non-intersecting sets they are widely assumed to be. The story is true -- it stars my mother -- and I present it as a counterpoint to Sam Harris' widely...

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