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uld be placed in hotel rooms across America, in the drawer next to the Gideon Bible —Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, columnist for Scientific American, and author of The Moral Arc "Discovering the bedrock nature of physical reality ranks as one of humanity's greatest collective achievements. This

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ebate, which in 2008, 2012, and 2016 helped raise issues of science and sound public policy in the presidential elections in those years. Hailed by Scientific American as a rare scientific public intellectual, Krauss has dedicated his time, throughout his career, to is- sues of science and society and has helped sp