professor andy miah, phd, frsa

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Donald Bruce

Posted by Andy Miah on March 16, 2006

Donald happens to be speaking as I type. He is talking in a plenary session in the Tomorrow’s People meeting, where the topic is ‘Happiness?’. It is chaired by Baroness Susan Greenfield and includes Lord Richard Layard, David Nutt and Nick Baylis. This session feels quite frustrating, a lot of anti-technology. I met Donald a few years ago in Scotland and saw him again last October in Lancaster for a meeting on mitochondrial DNA and its modification.
He happens also to have mentioned that ‘celebrity‘ is our guiding concern – the desire for immorality or connection with it perhaps (my interpretation).

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