Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
If the U.S. falls off the flat earth, so does RTP
Sunday, April 11, 2010, 5:41 pmNeal Lane, a physicist who in the late 1990s was President Clinton’s top science advisor, worries when he looks at federal spending on research and development.
R&D spending as percentage of federal budget, FY 1962-2009
Sure, federal spending on R&D more than tripled in the past 50 years to about $147 billion in fiscal year 2009, as Lane pointed out Saturday in a talk at N.C. State University. But R&D’s share of all federal spending has been shrinking from nearly 12 percent during the height of the Apollo program in the late 1960s to about 5 percent in 2009, according to numbers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Lane, a professor at Rice University and a senior fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, is particularly concerned about federal funding for research in physics, mathematics and engineering, the disciplines that brought forth computers, the Internet and mobile devices such as the cell phone. Read more…
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Mark MacAllister
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:07 amContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Mark MacAllister, Coordinator of On-Line Learning Projects at the North Carolina Zoological Society to answer a few questions:
ScienceOnline2010 – interview with Andrea Novicki
Monday, March 1, 2010, 6:24 pmContinuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years’ interviews as well: 2008 and 2009.
Today, I asked Andrea Novicki from the Duke CIT blog to answer a few questions:
North Carolina science journalism/blogging projects getting noticed
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:41 pmIf you are interested in the topic of science journalism, how it’s changing, what’s new, and who’s who in it, you are probably already reading Knight Science Journalism Tracker. If not, you should start now.
They have recently been digging around and finding projects with which I am involved in one way or another:
A path to Eureka
Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 10:33 amIt hit me when my mind wandered through a blog post by Robert Lee Hotz, a Wall Street Journal science writer, about research that explores the brain during sudden Eureka moments. Also a contributing factor was a book, that, as I’m reading it, makes me wonder whether it’s smarter to be a nematode or a human.
Mapping RTP's future
Sunday, May 31, 2009, 4:40 pm
Science and innovation will continue to drive economic development in the next 20 years, but where the new jobs will spring up is not as clear.
The Internet is emphasizing how researchers work over where they work. To solve scientific puzzles increasingly requires more than one researcher, one lab, or one organization. And in the global recession government is trading places with industry in stepping up investment in research and development.
RTP: Then and now
Sunday, May 17, 2009, 7:09 pmOn a Friday afternoon, when traffic is bumper-to-bumper four lanes deep on Interstate 40 from Research Triangle Park to Raleigh, it’s hard to imagine RTP was nothing but scrub pines and possums 50 years ago.
Harnessing the Internet for science
Friday, May 1, 2009, 7:59 pmTen years ago, business and science reporters wrote a lot about Y2K, which was basically the concern that the date change from 1999 to 2000 would shut down the Internet. Instead, the Internet blossomed. A decade later, we’re just beginning to grasp what we should have really been worried about when we entered the 21st century: The Internet’s effects on the flow and distribution of information.
Brave new Internet world
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 6:40 amMy husband Alan has been thinking a lot lately about the fact that our daughters will not know a world in which you mainly learned about your place in it through personal relationships, newspapers, magazines, television, radio and books.
