the iceland experiment
did you actually know this? i read this article on time this week that in iceland there is an organisation in colab with the government and they have created a bank of 100,000 blood specimens (that's almost half of iceland's population). they are researching on diseases and the genes that cause them. it's pretty exciting to find out that diavetes or cancer could be cured or prevented soon!
there you go - a positive use of science in our days :). to tell you the truth i am impressed, though i had kind of heard taht such a research is going on, but i didn't know it is so large-scale.
posted by dimitris @ 22:19
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so this doesn't seem as random as it is, I stumbled on your blog via 'greece' as a search.
"there you go - a positive use of science in our days :)."
Do you believe that science is not used for good on a regular basis? If so, from whence does that conclusion come?
first of all, welcome to greece :)
second, well, it's not a general conclusion that science is used for bad purposes, but here's some examples: war and weapons, genetically altered food, pollution, radioactive materials used on everyday basis in our life, creation of drugs (as a result of chemistry) etc etc.
of course there's also a lot of positive use of science and technology in our lives, don't get me wrong. but sometimes i tend to see more on the "negative" side of things - what can be improved, so to say.
Hi Dimi,
Well, it is quite big company (biotech) doing this research. When I was there in 2001, it was fun to hang out with late-twenties researchers doing their research ... even more partying ;)
Unique is tha Icelanders could trace their ancestry to the very first person who stepped on the island. Incredible, ah?
Wishes
Volodja
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