Lawrence Krauss, a Rare card

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Rare
Domain: Science
ATK: 78
DEF: 77
Power: 155
Wikipedia reads a year: 280,000

Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.

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Lawrence Krauss quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Lawrence Krauss card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

Find the missing word
Krauss is an ______ for public understanding of science.
Answer
advocate. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science. From the Lawrence Krauss article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He founded ASU's Origins Project in ____ to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director.
Answer
2000s. He founded ASU's Origins Project in 2008 to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. From the Lawrence Krauss article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Thermonuclear weapon. Thermonuclear weapon 87 · Sports betting 81 · Lawrence Krauss 78 · Louis Slotin 74 ATK in WikiCards.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

He founded ASU's Origins Project in 2008 to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director.
Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science.
An anti-theist, Krauss seeks to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture.

Why it is Rare

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lawrence Krauss article was read about 280,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.

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