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New Light in an Old Universe - Dr. Brian Keating, Cosmologist, UCSD

The DemystifySci Podcast

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Is the Medal of Honor a Destructive Force?

There's this cultural social need to deify people though to focus it on one individual so that we can use them almost and use them as that torch to walk towards. So I think there is some sort of great disservice we do by not finding a way to honor the team and the team effort because science is ultimate. Einstein had so many amazing collaborators, from what I understand, he wasn't even that great of a mathematician, but he made friends with one who he was able to communicate his ideas to.

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