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In this shortened version of a talk he gave recently on BBC Radio 3, Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, argues for a view of science as an education of the mind, rather than as professional training
A long-awaited bill on governmental organisation of scientific activities was finally presented to the Canadian Parliament shortly before Christmas. David Spurgeon reports from Ottawa.
