While we might find it fun to say scientists are greyfaces, arguing their rigorous and staid paradigm is doomed to fail for a lack of dynamism, it's unfair to paint 'em all with broad strokes. Behind those pallid façades and brilliant white coats beat passionate hearts which necessitate how these souls are polymaths with divergent interests, fuelling creativity which forges the bleeding edge leading into humanity's future. Tom McLeish is far more eloquent, and blessed with more space, in positioning this provocative argument. Further down the halls of science, Maria Popova wants you to know about
A Pioneering Case For The Value Of Citizen Science From The Polymathic Astronomer John Herschel. Scientists only have one pair of eyes, but getting others to join the hunt to further humanity's progress. And that's not all. (CS)
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