Nowotny asks what does a social scientist do in the land of genomic promise? The promise (or contract) that binds science and scientists together is the expectation that the public have from scientists, and the scientists aspiration to produce something useful. The pursuit was one of laws, the laws of natural philosophy, but with the…
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Thanks to the Nobel Week Dialogue blogg team: @j_timmer @BLugger @jacaryl @mhdelaney (&me) http://t.co/0CxXtBQD #nwd12 http://t.co/Xe2n72Tq
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“I wish we understand biology as much as I understand hamburgers” Juan Enriquez #nwd12 http://t.co/N8y8l3Ar
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Chu: the greatest discoveries have come out of curiosity driven research #nwd12