How to Solve the World's Biggest Problems (repost)


'' Interdisciplinarity has become all the rage as scientists tackle climate change and other intractable issue. But there is still strong resistance to crossing borders ... We have to bring people with different kinds of skills and expertise together. No one has everything that's needed. ''


This is a repost of Heidi Ledford article in the Nature News posted in September 2015.

You can read the pdf or the html version.

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