My favourite biotechnology expert, blogger-journalist and friend Lene, has finally started blogging from St. Louis again: a city stuck in the US bible belt, but also home to a number of big biotech companies and research institutes, and as such a potent battleground for the future of new science. More on the social conservative spin zone here.
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As an experiment, what about looking at the think pieces and ideas that still stick from 2023 – rather than the newest new thing or predicting trends that may or may not come to pass? For me, some of the articles I still think about, that still resonate from last year
“Social Media is not really a filter bubble but a boxing ring: You are both bonding with people with similar values, views, interests and in conflict with people with opposing views.” The quote belongs to techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci, today a professor at Columbia University. I've recently read two