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...society and reading Adam Smith and Karl Marx from cover to cover. But actually visiting a place like Cuba showed me that the way theory plays out on the streets is just as important as the debates that rage between philosophers. At first, I saw a place that had fallen apart. Walking the streets of old Havana, I passed decaying buildings in a city that formerly boasted grand, Spanish-influenced architecture. Instead of sunny-colored stucco walls amidst tall white columns, I saw rotting doorways, paintless exteriors, and decayed molding. But after a few days of speaking with my Cuban...
Some are alarmed that government R&D funding has fallen from a 60% to a 30% share of total funding. So what? Does government necessarily make wiser investment decisions than private companies? The mistake of the Soviets, Japanese and so many others was to assume that creativity could be achieved with enough government planning and funding. But the very essence of creativity is spontaneity. A society's creativity is directly proportionate to the rate of free interaction of people and ideas in a vast unplanned national chemical reaction. There is no country anywhere more given to the unencumbered, unfettered, unregulated...
...Google reminded everybody very publicly last week how differently things work in China. Google launched a Chinese version of itself, Google.cn, that is heavily censored to comply with Communist Party regulations. For a company with the unofficial motto "Don't be evil," a company that has picked up the fallen standard of Internet idealism, that was a bit of a shocker. Did the virtuous Google just sell out its honor...
...panel at Seoul National University (S.N.U.) put it bluntly: "This kind of error is a grave act that damages the foundations of science." Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, South Korea's famous stem-cell researcher, had fallen from grace. An S.N.U. investigation into Hwang's groundbreaking experiments in human cloning found the nation's top scientist had faked the results of his greatest success. The scandal was a setback not only for the controversial field of embryonic-stem-cell research, but also for the image of scientists as disinterested practitioners pursuing knowledge and truth...
...superstar has fallen from his pedestal, science as an institution has ways to recover from its mistakes. It was a group of young Korean researchers operating on the Internet who poked the first holes in Hwang's work. Scientists by nature are relentlessly self-correcting?skepticism is at the heart of the scientific method. As the South Koreans who idolized Hwang have come to learn, blind faith has no place in the laboratory...