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The Team: Vicki Hyde, Closer to Truth

SciTechDaily Review was founded in late 1998 as a labour of love, when the irrepressible Denis Dutton of Arts & Letters Daily fame badgered a friend into making a sister site. The idea was to link to the most thought-provoking, well researched online items in the world of science and technology.

The New York Times coined a new term for it - a "porthole" site, where the view is concentrated into a specific area of interest, and said that this approach represented a major new Internet trend. Not bad for a site that had been online at that stage for three days!

Two years on and SciTechDaily was lucky enough to find a marriage of like minds in the form of science media initiative Closer to Truth initiative. An alliance was formed to boldly go forth and spread the word of the role of science and technology in society. It's been more than a five-year mission….

Why eppur si muove?

It's what Galileo is alleged to have said on going into house arrest -- "but it does move...."

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Vicki Hyde, Founder and Managing Editor

I'm a sucker for promoting a greater understanding of science and technology and the part it plays in our lives. It started with science fairs at school, and has been a part of my life ever since.

I spent ten years editing, publishing and posting our country's only general interest science magazine, the New Zealand Science Monthly. I've headed the NZ Skeptics as their Chair-entity, and been a supporter of groups such as the NZ Association of Scientists, the Association of Women in Science, and a whole host of others. I've talked to school children, conferences and service groups by the truckload about why they need to know about science and technology and the part these important subjects play in our lives and our society.

You might think it's a crazy role for someone who's never actually been a scientist, but I get a delight out of discovery. That's why SciTechDaily, and its part in the Closer to Truth science discourse initiative, means a lot to me. As a society, whether it's New Zealand or New England, we need to understand where we are going and the best way to get there.

What I really want to do is fly through Mars' Valles Marineris. Though these days I'd settle for getting into orbit (anyone got some spare millions?).

Onward, ever onward, Vicki

Closer to Truth: COSMOS CONSCIOUSNESS, GOD

Closer To Truth explores fundamental issues of universe, brain/mind, religion, meaning and purpose through intimate, candid conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, scholars, theologians and creative thinkers of all kinds.

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