AAAS President Nina Fedoroff welcome's attendees
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A video of Nina Fedoroff's opening address at AAAS 2012 is available here (starts at 40 minutes in). I thought it was very interesting. She gives an inspiring account of the difficulties that she overcame in becoming a scientist, starting with getting pregnant and dropping out of high school at 17; she explains some fascinating things about the nature of transposons and the history of their discovery; she presents a strong case for the importance of GMOs and related interdisciplinary science and engineering in adapting to climate change; and she ends with an interesting tour of international science diplomacy.
Although the video presented through membercentral.aaas.org, I believe that it's outside the paywall.
(Please don't complain about the spelling of welcome's. Everybody make's mistake's.)
Adrian said,
February 18, 2012 @ 4:59 pm
(But some people correct them when their pointed out.)
Robert Furber said,
February 20, 2012 @ 9:57 am
It seems that Muphry's law is as valid as ever.