Links of interest

• Vatican jumps on Galileo bandwagon
  
• Moshe Safdie at TED: includes a link to a video of his presentation, in which he discusses several projects, starting with a science museum in Kansas
  
• Roy Gould and Curtis Wong demonstrate the Worldwide Telescope at TED: this is a project of Microsoft Research, in which they are trying to bring together observations from telescopes and satellites all over the world to allow people to "tour the universe."
  
• Michael Shermer at TED: another TED talk -- this one is the "professional skeptic" Michael Shermer on "Why People Believe Strange Things." He presents a particular perspective on scientific literacy.