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2000 : WHAT IS TODAY'S MOST IMPORTANT UNREPORTED STORY? [1]

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Pattie Maes [4]
Professor, MIT MediaLab; Program Head, MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences
What Scientific Research Is Really Like

The public still thinks of research as a very serious and lonely activity. The picture of a scientist that typically comes to mind is that of a person in labcoat hunched over heavy books, locked up in their ivory tower. The truth is that scientists are more like a group of uninhibited, curious kids at play. Maybe teenagers would be more into science if they had a more accurate picture of what research is like and realized that one way to avoid growing up is to become a scientist.

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[4] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/pattie_maes