Interesting confluence of views from today’s feeds:
Let’s face it, science is boring – science-in-society – 21 December 2009 – New Scientist
“Science is not a whirlwind dance of excitement, illuminated by the brilliant strobe light of insight. It is a long, plodding journey through a dim maze of dead ends. It is painstaking data collection followed by repetitious calculation. It is revision, confusion, frustration, bureaucracy and bad coffee. In a word, science can be boring.”
Medical Hypotheses: Why are modern scientists so dull?
“How science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity”
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