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"Science killed my unicorns."
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Including a few links to recommended-reading lists.
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"The name "Galileo" is one of those names that should be familiar with people, especially in light of the historical significance, not only in science, but also in christianity. So 400 years after his courageous work that shows that the Earth revolves around the sun, do people actually know what he did? Most apparently do not."
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"If it's zero degrees outside and it becomes twice as cold it was before, what is the temperature?
Usually it's presented as a joke. I'd like to consider some alternative interpretations."
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"An article by Evan Mills, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, points out that scientific buildings use a lot more energy than average"
Yes, more people should know what Galileo did.
Oddly, the reason I remember one of the key dates associated with Galileo is because in one of my German classes as an undergraduate we read Bertolt Brecht's Leben des Galilei (Life of Galileo). In that play, a narrator introduces each scene with a couplet. The couplet I remember:
Rough translation: On 10 January 1610 Galileo Galilei saw that there was no heaven.
That was the date on which he realized that Jupiter had satellites.