When you think about science leadership, you don't often think about United Arab Emirates. Dictatorships don't lend themselves to quality basic research but when they put their minds to applied research and development, and a lot of money, good things can happen.While environmental activists wish we were a little more dictatorship-oriented when it comes to banning cars, like the Chinese did...
read moreWhen you think about science leadership, you don't often think about United Arab Emirates. Dictatorships don't lend themselves to quality basic research but when they put their minds to applied research and development, and a lot of money, good things can happen.While environmental activists wish we were a little more dictatorship-oriented when it comes to banning cars, like the Chinese did...
read moreIf you visit the outside of a meeting regarding biology and policy today, you are sure to see protesters who all insist that they should be voting on the science. They have reached their own consensus and their consensus is that biologists are just tinkerers who are out to create a scientocracy not bound by morality or ethics or anything beyond the cold pursuit of violating nature. read...
read moreIf you visit the outside of a meeting regarding biology and policy today, you are sure to see protesters who all insist that they should be voting on the science. They have reached their own consensus and their consensus is that biologists are just tinkerers who are out to create a scientocracy not bound by morality or ethics or anything beyond the cold pursuit of violating nature. read...
read moreTED Talks have always been a little light on the science and heavy on the cultural etherealism. That's cool, they are obviously successful and you can't charge anyone outside government-grant funded academics or corporate-funded scientists a lot of money to attend a conference on just science but people will pay a lot more if you also throw in speculation about the future, a human rights activist...
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