{"id":4155,"date":"2009-10-12T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T07:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/12\/links-for-2009-10-12\/"},"modified":"2009-10-12T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T07:19:21","slug":"links-for-2009-10-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/12\/links-for-2009-10-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-10-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/oct\/07\/uk-nobel-winner-attacks-funding\">Britain&#8217;s Nobel winner condemns science funding reform | Science | guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;&#8221;There is a lot of focus now on trying to get very quick pay-offs in research. It is a huge mistake. Basic science has paid off far more than any directed research,&#8221; Ramakrishnan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t invest properly in fundamental science, then you won&#8217;t have the foundations to develop the technologies and applications of tomorrow. Ten years down the line, your technology will be based on obsolete foundations.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/Nobel\">Nobel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/10\/10\/10081\">Lazy vs. Bizarre \u00c2\u00a7 Unqualified Offerings<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;My department is trying a new seminar time slot.  We used to have it Friday at 4pm, and it was a nice end-of-the-week social event, but it also drew few students.  This year, for a variety of reasons, we wound up experimenting with 11am on Thursday, which is a time slot that doesn&#8217;t conflict with a lot of classes.  Student attendance is decent.  Now we&#8217;re trying to decide whether to continue it.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/unqualified-offerings\">unqualified-offerings<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5378362\/americana-that-barack-obama-has-made-un%20american?skyline=true&amp;s=i\">Americana That Barack Obama Has Made Un-American &#8211; Barack Obama &#8211; Gawker<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been getting kind of confusing keeping track of what&#8217;s truly American anymore, so we came up with a handy list of things that are socialist and foreign because Barack Obama has soiled them, by doing them.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Nobel winner condemns science funding reform | Science | guardian.co.uk &#8220;&#8221;There is a lot of focus now on trying to get very quick pay-offs in research. 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Basic science has paid off far more than any directed research,&#8221; Ramakrishnan said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t invest properly in fundamental science, then you&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/10\/12\/links-for-2009-10-12\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2009-10-12<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}