Regular readers of this blog will recognize more than few names on the Scientific American 10, an honor roll that recognizes 10 people who "have recently demonstrated outstanding commitment to assuring that the benefits of new technologies and knowledge will accrue to humanity."
On the list, along with celebrities like President Barack Obama, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Bill Gates, are Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, and Dr. Andras Nagy, a researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
Scott was recognized for her "tireless advocacy to ensure that evolution, the cornerstone of all modern biology, is taught correctly in the nation's public schools," says John Rennie, Scientific American's editor in chief.
As the magazine notes:

"Thomas Henry Huxley was the 19th-century biologist known as 'Darwin's bulldog' for his defense of the great scientist's ideas. The 21st century has a counterpart in the woman who describes herself as 'Darwin's golden retriever.' Eugenie Scott has emerged as one of the most prominent advocates for keeping evolution an integral part of the curriculum in public schools. ... With the ever changing semantics of antievolutionists, Darwin's golden retriever will have plenty more chances to act as a loyal defender of teaching evolution in the schools."

"In effect, Nagy and his colleagues had, for the first time, created the equivalent of embryonic stem cells that were uncontroversially ethical, safe and efficient—a significant advance toward being able to use them in patients in a clinic."