A TED Talk to Open Your Eyes to Open Science
It takes a good story to pull it all together, and that’s what Michael Nielsen delivers here: A nice, short, TED-sized story about a slick project that shows the power of open science’s main principles. I give TED some grief now and then, when its hunger for powerful ideas gives air to expressions of scientific ideas that walk too far out beyond the evidence. Here we see its redeeming strength: It generates concise stories illuminating the firm frameworks of complexity.
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On the idea Open Science – using the internet to foster sharing of scientific information. I don't yet see how the problem of attribution is addressed, but the idea makes sense to me for publicly funded research.
