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by Richard Primack
“Practically,
the old have no very important advice to give the young. I have lived some
thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of
valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."
-Thoreau, Walden
-Thoreau, Walden
In 1967, I was a
high school student off for a summer of research on mouse genetics at the Jackson
Laboratory in idyllic Bar Harbor, Maine. The most amazing part of the program was
the chance to meet and interact with intellectually motivated students from
around the United States.
Recently, I
was invited back to the Jackson Lab after 49 years to talk with a new crop of
high school students about my memories of the program, what I have done and am
currently doing in my research, and what I had learned over the course of my
career and life. Above is a 3 minute version of my talk; keep in the mind the above quote
from Thoreau that the wisdom of seniors has little value.
Interesting post. The musical background is distracting.
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