Uncle Syd's idea for funding new assistant professors

I was leafing (virtually of course) through old issues of "Current Biology" when I came across a thought-provoking, slightly tongue-in-cheek essay by Sydney Brenner in an issue from 1994. Brenner used to write a regular column for the magazine and his thoughts ranged from improving lab conditions to junk DNA; as is characteristic of Brenner's incisive mind, almost all the columns give you something new to think about.  It was Brenner's ("Uncle Syd") fictitious letter to an assistant […]