http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceisnobel Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:47:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceisnobel/2007/12/15/impact/#comment-2 T Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:50:40 +0000 http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceisnobel/2007/12/15/impact/#comment-2 The insider-outsider tension in science...it's good to be an insider because, well, there is a system that works, and because there's comfort in hewing close to tradition and to the fashions of "science," yet it's good to be an outsider because there is so much to do outside that the insiders don't care about, and because only when outside are you free to not care so much what other people think - which is freedom indeed. Good luck. Have fun. The insider-outsider tension in science…it’s good to be an insider because, well, there is a system that works, and because there’s comfort in hewing close to tradition and to the fashions of “science,” yet it’s good to be an outsider because there is so much to do outside that the insiders don’t care about, and because only when outside are you free to not care so much what other people think - which is freedom indeed.
Good luck. Have fun.

]]> http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceisnobel/2007/12/25/science-immigration/#comment-1 bookhling Fri, 09 May 2008 06:58:53 +0000 http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceisnobel/2007/12/25/science-immigration/#comment-1 Finally. It's good to hear a voice of reason. Some of the people around here talk as if the rest of the world is a slum waiting to move into U.S. at first opportunity. It's nauseating. Finally. It’s good to hear a voice of reason. Some of the people around here talk as if the rest of the world is a slum waiting to move into U.S. at first opportunity. It’s nauseating.

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