DR BRIAN COX - DEFENDS ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE with SIR DAVID KING

DR BRIAN COX - DEFENDS ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE with SIR DAVID KING

Courtesy: Newsnight [Sir David KING is the past President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science]

Professor Dr Brian Cox (Born, 3 March 1968, Oldham,Lancs) [University of Manchester, Professor of Particle Physics]. He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow based in the Particle Physics group at the University of Manchester, where he holds a chair in Particle Physics. He works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva.
His main research interest is the FP420 R&D project, aimed at upgrading ATLAS and CMS with forward proton detectors 420m away from the interaction points. In the past, he worked at the H1 experiment at DESY in Hamburg, and the D0 experiment at the Tevatron at Fermilab, Chicago.

He defends the expenditure & research spent on the Large Hadron Collider ("LHC") located at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr Brian Cox previously played keyboards in the boy band D:ream in 1997: "Things can only get better..."

He is now married to TV presenter Gia MILINOVICH - done in secret. [She runs a blog where threads include a discussion of whether her husband is gay].

COX now divides his time between Oldham and London, where his wife lives with 11-year-old Moki, her son from a previous marriage.

The couple's first date was on 11 September 2001, and they married four years ago in her mother's front room in Duluth, Minnesota. He only told his own parents when he got back. 'I'm a northern man. I don't like any fuss,' he explains. Milinovich's most recent blog post says touchingly: 'There have been many times over the years when I've been extremely proud of my lovely husband. His appearance on Newsnight is right at the bloody top of the list.'

When in Geneva, he uses computer 'iChat' to keep in touch with Gia and Moki before going for dinner. A recent newspaper article, in which he described rambling back to his room having usually drunk about a bottle of Châteauneuf du Pape, annoyed his colleagues who said it implied that Cern was a tax-funded drinking den. Cox admits that he hates waking up in the morning, staying in bed until 9am if he can. But he is hardly unfit, running half-marathons and playing football with university colleagues; he used to have a season ticket at Oldham Athletic. These days his taste in music is jazz and singers such as Billie Holiday.

The British government's chief scientific advisor, Professor Sir David King has set out a universal ethical code for scientists.
He has outlined seven principles aimed at building trust between scientists and society.
Described as the scientific equivalent of doctors' Hippocratic Oath, the code includes clauses on corruption, public consultation and the environment.
He launched the code at the British Association for the Advancement of Science's annual festival in York.

The seven points in this code are part of what separates researchers from charlatans.

The aim, he said, was to outline responsibilities and values in order to encourage researchers to reflect on the impact their work would have on wider society.

"We believe if every scientist followed the code, we would improve the quality of science and remove many of the concerns society has about research," Professor King.

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[TurboDally]

$10 billion miniscule compared to the money spent on wars.

[happyidiottalk]

OMG, that David King fellow is unbelievably short sighted for someone who is supposedly the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. I would suggest he watches this video from Neil DeGrasse Tyson and broaden his horizons a little.

/watch?v=VjY0vqgDMnE

Kudos to Brian though, what an absolute rock star of science.

[twanman11]

Brian, Please slap them two for me!!!!!

[ryanwilliammac]

10 billion is nothing. trillions have been spent in ten years in iraq, afganistan and brian cox is right. you might find 100 new things to do with info found from the hadron collider but h.i.v. isnt easy to cure

[Zybardium]

I really dislike people who don't see the point in science. We are who we are and the universe is everything it is because of science. People at school would say 'science is pointless' why would they say that? Without science nothing In the universe would be.

[VVizeman]

@TurboDally Meanwhile the Rothchild family has over 300 TRILLION dollars.

And for those who don't get that, imagine they could build 30 thousand CERNs.

Money is the destruction of mankind

[clairebehun]

love the work here

[TomFynn]

Dawkins said that in the proofs of one of his books he discovered a typo: Large Hardon Collider.

He begged with his editor to leave it in, but to no avail...

[jayejayeee]

really informative and interesting

[grisgrisy]

you have some great stuff here

[MrJonkelp]

interesting video and very informative

[willbirful]

really informative and interesting