Lowbrows, huh?

With the fifth division And the press of the Lebanese Forces And at the same time

And one of the questions, they were very culturally astute, the people who put the questionnaire.

And they will get healthier by using the Tricorder, and they'll become better educated by using the Khan Academy, and by literally being able to use 3D printing and infinite computing become more productive than ever before.

I've met, what they call 'bums' that were so well read, that they didn't want any part of the system.

They embraced the ideologies of the Third Reich as educated adults... when they, most of all... should have valued justice.

Science and art were very much intermingled in the early Renaissance, with polymath artists such as Leonardo da Vinci making observational drawings of anatomy and nature.

We emerged from the debris of the cold war to become a State advanced in science and technology, one inhabited by 10 million highly educated and tolerant people.

So we stayed during the half of the 20th century with intellectuals who were actually shaping the agenda of the arabs, and reading and writing, but a very small fraction of people.

That trend is generally called Islamic modernism, and it was advanced by intellectuals and statesmen, not just as an intellectual idea though, but also as a political program.

We need scientifically literate politicians adept at evidence based critical thinking to translate these findings and recommendations into policy and international agreements.

To start things of, we came up with a list of candidates we canvassed internally. Not everyone will be happy with the list, but we tried thinking of a range of intellectuals representing different parts of the continent, not just from one country.

The idea was later taken up by Latin American intellectuals and political leaders of the mid and late nineteenth century, who no longer looked to Spain or Portugal as cultural models, but rather to France.

On a daily basis, at a great many international and scholarly conferences all over the world, we can hear learned debates about human rights and emotional proclamations in their defense.