Back from Tuscany and listening to the Today programme (with a new website), as I lethargically got ready to go to work this morning. There was an interesting debate on the position of ethics in science and whether science can or has the right to answer moral questions. It made me think of some of the differences between Europe and the USA.
In Europe we tend to ask questions, whereas the US approach is to build solutions using technology. The debate looks at this issue against the background of some current scientific dilemmas, like global warming and genetic engineering.
There seems to be a bit of a blogger Radio 4 love in at the minute, with various people commenting on just how great R4 is. Maybe it is the equivalent of an radio book and many bloggers like to read, as much as write. Some thing that strikes me is that this might be why the active blogging community is relatively small at 2-300,000. People who read often have an opinion and this might encourage them to write, so are there two barriers to entry for the regular blogger. You need to be one of the small number of people who regularly read books and you need to have the time to think and write. More on this over the weekend, I think.
