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- A Progress Studies History of Early MIT https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/a-progress-studies-history-of-early 2 comments
- Would you rather lose 10% of your researchers or 10% of your labs? Fabian Waldinger has a fantastic paper comparing the impact on publishing productivity of German departments dismissing professors for political reasons vs. a department being hit by a bomb. https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/bombs-brains-and-science?s=w 5 comments economics
- Applied research is meant to have direct applications. Basic research is meant to be exploratory. So why do both types of these patents have the same likelihood of resulting in a patent?! (using NIH data) https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/is-americas-applied-and-basic-research?r=8g94f 9 comments futurology
- Computers are great, but they haven't helped increase the income of the average person very much. Scientific articles are great, but their numbers have exploded while the average income has stagnated. The productivity data might give us better ideas for how to set goals for science and technology https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/what-should-new-age-research-organizations 485 comments futurology