Adam Bluestein

From TheScientist.com:

“Science is a story — a story about ideas, but also a story about the remarkable people who devote their lives to unraveling the wonders of nature. Scientists themselves, however, rarely have a vessel to impart their personal wisdoms since the main outlet for scientific research — peer-reviewed literature — is typically devoid of narrative.

Not so last Friday (June 12) night at the World Science Festival in New York City. Two Nobel Laureates, two neurobiologists, and two writers poured their hearts out to a packed room of showgoers at an event called Matter: Stories of Atoms and Eves, which was sponsored by The Moth, a nonprofit group that hosts storytelling slams.”

Here’s Nobel-winning biochemist Paul Nurse on hereditary traits — his own.