Two good posts

1. Om Malik writes in GigaOm, how Morality is not a group effort, rather
an individual choice.(on the news that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo — are teaming up with human rights groups and other organizations to set up a Global Network Initiative that will help “avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression.”)

2. Excerpts from a speech by Watson(co-discoverer of DNA, remember Watson and Crick?) :

1. Talk to your opponents - A lot of scientists are afraid to share their ideas. But by cooperating with Maurice Wilkins, a scientist at a rival lab in London, Watson and Crick learned of experimental evidence that enabled them to clinch their discovery. The person who actually took the pioneering photograph, Rosalind Franklin, never shared her research, and died before the 1062 Nobel Prize was awarded to the three men. “Generally it pays to talk,” says Watson. Oh… and, another rule:
2. Never be the brightest person on the room; then you can’t learn anything.

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