Archive for November, 2011
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Lots of them, but mostly HHS, which I assume is mostly NIH. NSF comes in a not-so-close second.
Basic research funding, in billions of dollars (2008):
HHS 16.0
NSF 3.7
DOE 3.2
DOD 1.5
NASA 1.3
USDA 1.0
Other 0.8
Total 27.6
The US budget is around 3 trillion, so this is about 1% of total US spending.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
It would be awesome to have an open source GIS that works as well as R does for stats, and it looks like there almost is one. I checked out QGIS last week and was pretty impressed. I managed to get it installed and pull some of my thesis data ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
I went on a fun canoe trip on the Muskingum River a couple weekends ago. One of the unexpectedly interesting parts was seeing the Muskingum River Power Plant, a massive old coal-burning operation. It took the better part of an hour to canoe past the enormous premises.
I knew from my ...
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