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And - just to add to the bad PR - Prometheus' own punishment was to be tied to a rock for all eternity, where each day an eagle would tear at his liver (and each night his liver would, of course, regenerate itself). Careful, now.... Dom Dom McDonald Head of Public Engagement & Business Networks Science Oxford 1-5 London Place Oxford OX4 1BD T: 01865 728953 D: 01865 810021 F: 01865 791854 SCIENCEOXFORDLIVE SCIENCEOXFORDNETWORKS SCIENCEOXFORDNEXT SCIENCEOXFORDONLINE This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of Science Oxford unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it from your system. Science Oxford is the public face of The Oxford Trust, a registered charity no 292664. A company limited by guarantee no 1898691 -----Original Message----- From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Russell Sent: 22 March 2012 22:39 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Fusion: the quest for abundant, clean energy - Public lecture, Wed 4 April It does seem a truly heroic quest, to 'steal fire from the sun' on behalf of mankind. Wasn't the Greek hero Prometheus also advised against attempting exactly the same enterprise? The Prometheus legend isn't terribly useful for PR purposes though, since mankind's punishment for such audacity was Pandora's Box, which, when opened, released all the ills of the world... Promoting public engagement with science through a contagious delight in phenomena * [log in to unmask] * http://www.interactives.co.uk * http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ian-russell/0/636/305 * Give people facts and you feed their minds for an hour. Awaken curiosity and they feed their own minds for a lifetime. * Ian Russell ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptable Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************