Friday, January 27th, 2012

Can Science Be Done Without Secrecy?

Charles Darwin's diagram of an evolutionary tree from his First Notebook on Transmutation of Species (1837). Cambridge University Library.

In his book, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Physicist Michael Nielsen discusses why scientists jealously guard their data and are slow to adopt online tools for collaboration. Nielsen talks about why attempts to create science wikipedias have failed.

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Michael Nielsen
Author, "Reinventing Discovery:The New Era of Networked Science" (Princeton, 2011)
Toronto, Canada

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Segment produced by:Namisha Sarin Anand

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