‘We don’t know how to handle the present’

We should make this rock we live on a better place for all as well as looking at the stars, Bob Geldof told the world’s leading scientists yesterday.

‘We don’t know how to handle the present’

The political activist, musician, and businessman was in Dublin as one of the keynote speakers at the 2012 Euroscience Open Forum.

Geldof began by saying he felt completely out of his depth because he knew “fuck all” about science, but wanted to talk about the point of the subject and the illusion of progress.

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