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Basic Research/Economics/Policy

More sloppy thinking on DOD-funded research

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Praj / 0 Comment

I’m sure that Matt Yglesias has forgotten more economics in the past hour than I will ever know. And yet, he believes that “if spending on military ...

Basic Research/Economics/Policy

Sloppy thinking on DOD-funded research

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Praj / 0 Comment

Several liberal bloggers protested the Times suggestion that cutting the Defense budget will reduce innovation. While some of their points are well-taken (the D...

Basic Research/Society/Special Interest

Scientists and the economic crisis, ctd.

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

Via the Jack Stilgoe post I just discussed, Colin Macilwain exhorts scientists to deal with a world in crisis: Those involved in science policy sometimes seem t...

Basic Research

The fuzzy boundary between science and technology

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

Over at Front Porch Republic, Nikos Salingaros (via Jerry Salyer) draws an unnecessarily sharp boundary between science and technology: James Kalb has recently ...

Basic Research

Unclogging the drug pipeline

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

David Bornstein reports on a promising approach to increase the number of drugs produced by medical research: Researchers in the foundation’s four partner labs ...

Basic Research/Economics

Discovery is not a synonym for innovation

Posted on February 12, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

My last post discussed Lehrer’s column on the increased difficulty of making scientific discoveries. Lehrer should have stuck with that topic alone instea...

Basic Research/Economics

The slowdown of meaningful discovery

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

Jonah Lehrer has again written a provacative piece, arguing that growing collaboration and teamwork among scientists is a response to “all the low-hanging...

Academia/Basic Research

Is academia even supposed to be useful?

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

If you’re wondering why I keep harping on basic research, it’s because I want to write an essay on the topic and I’m using this venue to hash ...

Academia/Basic Research

Maybe politicians and policymakers are smarter than scientists

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Praj / 4 Comments

To continue with the basic research meme, here’s Lewis Branscomb distinguishing the goals of research with how it’s conducted (emphasis added): I be...

Basic Research/Public Discourse

Why can’t we just say what we think about basic research?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

The second important flaw in the usual antithesis is that these two widespread and ancient modes of thinking about science, pure versus applied, have tended to ...

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