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Breakfast lessons for MPs bridge science, political gap

Published: 5 June 2009

"The audience of 60 MPs, Library of Parliament workers, political staffers and scientists watches appreciatively. Their attention hasn't flickered since Vicky Kaspi started talking 40 minutes earlier. Even those who haven't done a science course since high school often show up every month or two for a Parliamentary breakfast lecture, like this one on Thursday, from a prominent Canadian scientist. For the moment, Kaspi is holding court on the 'violent high-energy universe'..." Kaspi, a Â鶹AV astrophysicist spoke on Parliament Hill Thursday during part of a lecture series by the Partnership Group in Science and Engineering.

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