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BOSTON, Mass.—His determinism is unnerving, his passions abstract, and his ability to relate to the world outside his cloistered laboratories is limited, at best. The scientist is a decidedly strange creature, or so our society seems to believe.But scientists would not agree with the public’s estimation, and they would be right not to: Our society’s conception of the scientist is warped beyond any resemblance to reality. Sitting at a lab bench in Boston, on the gray cusp between layperson and scientist, I’ve had a rare opportunity...
...Chan has already succeeded in putting democracy back in the headlines. "For some Hong Kong people her appearance adds to the credence of universal suffrage," says Chinese University of Hong Kong political scientist Ma Ngok. "More and more people are at least verbally supportive." Chief Executive Donald Tsang has even mused that direct elections for his post?currently filled based on the vote of only 800 mostly pro-business, pro-Beijing electors?might be possible in 2012. Will Chan challenge the popular Tsang when his term is up next year? She won't say. In an open race...
...only getting better. Late last year the government launched the Singapore Stem Cell Consortium, chaired by Cambridge University--based stem-cell scientist Roger Pederson, which will set aside $45 million for research in the field over the next three years. Money also comes from university grants and offshore organizations like the U.S.-based Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The diabetes group has helped fund biotech start-up ES Cell International (ESI), home to Briton--and now Singapore resident--Alan Colman, who was part of the British team that cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996. ESI manufactures its own embryonic-stem-cell...
This summer, former Friend Courteney Cox Arquette voices a cow in Barnyard and plays a geeky scientist in Zoom...
...There have been some studies that people come away with a deeper understanding of the subject matter and what it means to be a scientist if they undertake gently-guided hand-drawn investigations using tools unique to that sub-discipline of science...