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<html> <head lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <title>SLOW-SCIENCE.org — Bear with us, while we think.</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="author" content="SlowScience.org -- Online dependance of the offline community SLOW SCIENCE ACADEMY"/> <meta name="description" content="Science, Slow Science, slowscience, deceleration, slow science academy, 2010" /> <!-- <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="images/favicon.png" /> --> <style> body { /* font-family: "Myriad","Univers", "Helvetica Neue", helvetica, verdana,"univers", "segoe UI", Arial, Sans-serif; */ font-family: "Minion Pro", "Minion", "Antiqua", "Hoefler", "Sabon",Georgia, Times, Serif ; font-style: italic; font-size: 11pt; background-color: #FFFFEC; } a:link { font-family: "Minion Pro", "Minion", "Antiqua", "Hoefler", "Sabon",Georgia, Times, Serif ; text-decoration:none; color: #F40000; /*background-color:#DEDEDE;*/ } a:visited { font-family: "Minion Pro", "Minion", "Antiqua", "Hoefler", "Sabon",Georgia, Times, Serif ; text-decoration:none; color: #F40000; /*background-color:#DEDEDE;*/ } a:hover { text-decoration:underline; } h1 { font-size: .8em; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: .4em; word-spacing: .3em; color: #F40000; } hsub { font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; color: #292421; } .dropCap { float: left; font-size: 47px; line-height: 40px; padding-top: 3px; font-family: Georgia; text-transform: uppercase; } p { font-family: "Minion Pro", "Minion", "Antiqua", "Hoefler", "Sabon",Georgia, Times, Serif ; font-size: 11pt; text-align:justify; color: black; } table { border-left-style: none; border-color: #292421; border-width: 1px; margin:0px; padding: 10px; } .footer { font-family: "Minion Pro", "Minion", "Antiqua", "Hoefler", "Sabon",Georgia, Times, Serif ; font-size: 50%; font-style:normal; text-align:justify; } .amp { font-family: "Hoefler Text","Hoefler","Minion Pro","Goudy Old style", "Minion", "Antiqua", "Hoefler", "Sabon",Georgia, Times, Serif ; font-style: italic; } </style> </head> <body> <br> <br> <br> <center> <table width="500px"><tr><td colspan="2" justify="center"><img src="images/slowscience_header_minion.png" alt="Slow Science" width="500px" border="0"></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="1"> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /> <h1>THE SLOW SCIENCE MANIFESTO</h1> <p> We are scientists. We don’t blog. We don’t twitter. We take our time.</p><p>Don’t get us wrong—we do say <i>yes</i> to the accelerated science of the early 21st century. We say yes to the constant flow of peer-review journal publications and their impact; we say yes to science blogs and media <span class="amp">&</span> <small>PR</small> necessities; we say yes to increasing specialization and diversification in all disciplines. We also say yes to research feeding back into health care and future prosperity. All of us are in this game, too.</p><p>However, we maintain that this cannot be all. Science needs time to think. Science needs time to read, and time to fail. Science does not always know what it might be at right now. Science develops unsteadi­ly, with jerky moves and un­predict­able leaps forward—at the same time, however, it creeps about on a very slow time scale, for which there must be room and to which justice must be done.</p><p>Slow science was pretty much the only science conceivable for hundreds of years; today, we argue, it deserves revival and needs protection. Society should give scientists the time they need, but more importantly, scientists must <i>take</i> their time.</p><p>We do need time to think. We do need time to digest. We do need time to mis­understand each other, especially when fostering lost dialogue between humanities and natural sciences. We cannot continuously tell you what our science means; what it will be good for; because we simply don’t know yet. Science needs time.</p><p> —<i>Bear with us, while we think.</i></p></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <br /> <br /> <h1>THE SLOW SCIENCE ACADEMY</h1> <p>Support the Academy and express your sympathy on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/slow-science/119742574718314" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. You can also <a href="slow-science-manifesto.pdf"> download the slow science manifesto </a> and information as a 2-page pdf here and post it round your institutions. Thank you.</p><br /><br /> </td></tr> <tr><td> <p>(c) The Slow Science Academy, 2010</p><br /><br /><h1>SLOW SCIENCE ACADEMY · BERLIN, GERMANY · ACADEMY@SLOW-SCIENCE.ORG</h1> </td></tr> </table> </center> <!-- Start of StatCounter Code --> <a title="godaddy tracker" href="http://www.statcounter.com/godaddy_website_tonight/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c.statcounter.com/5832456/0/79dbbdb2/1/" alt="godaddy tracker" border="0"></a> <!-- End of StatCounter Code --> </body> </html>