It is not often that a scientist walks the red carpet at a Silicon Valley party and has Morgan Freeman award them millions of dollars while Alicia Keys performs on stage and other A-listers rub shoulders with Nasa astronauts.
Eighteen months later, Dr Arthur Calgary, a mysterious scientist, walks onto the velvety lawns of Sunny Point claiming to have just returned from an expedition to the Arctic.
5 "One day, an environmental scientist walked past the allotments," continued Jesus, a little miffed that not all his disciples were concentrating, "smiled happily at the enthusiasm and effort of the gardeners, and asked them why they were working so hard.
Deep in the bowels of the CIA, someone must be nervously, but very privately, wondering: "Whatever happened to those nuclear blueprints we gave to the Iranians?" The story dates back to the Clinton administration and February 2000, when one frightened Russian scientist walked Vienna's winter streets.
Stephen DiVerdi, a senior research scientist, walked before that crowd of several thousand and, in some ways, promised them an experience many never knew they might need someday.
"It's an amazing experience to feel this little Barbie doll body's yours, and then you see a scientist walk in and he's a giant," says lead author H. Henrik Ehrsson.
While he points out the often apocryphal nature of scientific history, he also repeats stories that sound suspect--there's Newton, for instance, the archetype of the absent-minded scientist, walking home with a bridle and leader in hand, unaware that the horse he'd been walking, as he pondered the universe, had slipped away.
Every month, the scientists walk through all the islands and count every heron nest they can find.
The scientists walked north along a guardrail contorted by years of car crashes before plunging back into the forest to reach their field site.
The Laotian rock rat was discovered by scientists walking through a food market where it was being offered for inclusion in the evening stew.
I imagined a bunch of scientists walking on Washington to support the idea of science as a guiding force for truth.
