Category: Research funding
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UK, Research, Deadlines - Another plague of science...
England's giant sequencing endeavor, the 100,000 Genomes Project, is getting a cash injection from public and private sources to meet its 2017 deadline, Prime Minister David Cameron announced. (1) Science with deadlines. It seems logical and proper. But how can you reach truth with deadlines? Unless you make shortcuts to fit the... schedule? Thought cannot…
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"Philanthropists", science funding, love, care...
Last April, President Obama assembled some of the nation’s most august scientific dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. He spoke of using technological innovation “to grow our economy” and unveiled “the next great American project”: a $100 million initiative to probe the mysteries of the human brain. Along the way, he invoked…
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Unitarity axiom, research funding & Science as the new religion!
Unitarity axiom. In quantum physics, unitarity is a restriction on the allowed evolution of quantum systems that ensures the sum of probabilities of all possible outcomes of any event is always 1. More precisely, the operator which describes the progress of a physical system in time must be a unitary operator. When the Hamiltonian is…
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Can't wait! Must have Nobel now!
The ones who discovered Higgs Boson (OK, except some nasty Indian who had the nerve to interfere with the glorious western white race Nobel Prize process) were awarded the Nobel Prize. (1) There you go. A "discovery" based on one experiment alone - and what an elusive discovery that is! - is made the basis…
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Funding, funding, funding!
Two out of three posts in Science Insider Magazine [1] lately are related to research funding (especially with the NSF issue). This is what "science" has become today: From the lighhouse of humanity, a beggar for money…
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