Venki Ramakrishnan was one of the people who won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for deducing the structure of the ribosome, the protein macro-molecular machine that takes the genetic information in DNA using RNA to create protein. This seven minute video is a set of snippets with Ramakrishnan's talking about his work (and the ribosome). He concludes with a convincing critique of the approach currently favoured by government that which research gets funded should by decided in part by its economic impact. Ramakrishnan (and many others) believe that knowledge should be pursued for its own sake: and that economic impact follows.
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