Whether you live in a big city or in a small town, you know somebody who knows the secrets of the universe and is not afraid to share them. Or the guy who could tell you how everything worked. But in both cases neither of those individuals had a clue about anything they were talking about. My favorite example of banter between the sidewalk philosopher and the guy who actually knew what he was talking about were the arguments that took place between Cliff Clavin and Frasier Crane on "Cheers."
But the paragraph above, shows that I myself may be a sidewalk philosopher and watched to much television growing up. However, BoingBoing.net one of 4waystops favorite websites posted this interesting article about Leon Lederman, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1988 set up a desk and answered science questions for people on the street for people for the television show "Street Corner Science with Leon Lederman."
Definitely worth checking out and better than meeting up with that guy on the street corner who will tell you the secrets of the universe for a dollar.
from boingboing.net: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/22/street-corner-scienc.html






