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" Benjamin Barber believes that the future of the world may lie with the politicians who implement practical change every day: mayors. " -- http://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_barber_why_mayors_should_rule_the_world.html
Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance
" What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like "farting around … in the dark." In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don’t know -- or “high-quality ignorance” -- just as much as what we know. Stuart Firestein teaches students and “citizen scientists” that ignorance is far more important to discovery than knowledge. " -- http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_firestein_the_pursuit_of_ignorance.html
