Allen began thinking about a big neuro-science project in the late 1990s, while he was making a flurry of investments in Seattle biotechnology companies.
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Since I spilled a bunch of ink on climate change and science denialists recently at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, I thought I might as well take on a few of the other big science vs. anti-science issues.
Researchers at the BGS hope that by making geological surveys global, they can encourage "big science" - research that no one country or geological survey could do on its own.
General Electric Co. is opening a new laboratory in Oklahoma, buying up related companies, and placing a big bet that cutting-edge science will improve profits for clients and reduce the environmental and health effects of the boom.
As surprising as this is may be to many laymen, such rigor is now in retreat in the billion-dollar world of Big Science.
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The centre will integrate expertise in cell biology, mass spectrometry, proteomics, "big-data" analytics, drug discovery and computer science to exploit the potential of the human genome project for healthcare and the development of safer drugs.
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The country with the world's second-biggest economy has never invested in a big global science project before.
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Miri will be fixed inside a cage-like structure called the Integrated Science Instrument Module and positioned just behind the big mirror.
That's what made money for the big pulp-comics companies: superhero stuff, mostly, but sometimes horror or romance or science fiction or crime comics, each of which has its own familiar codes and formulas.
Data gathering and number crunching for the two-year study was done by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a big government contractor, with input from academics and oil companies like Shell, BP, Marathon Energy.
While big government science and investment is a bipartisan passion now, the tone had been different in the mid-1990s, when Congress sought to reduce government with sweeping proposals like privatizing national labs and curbing business and corporate welfare.
And I want to get into some details about this because I want you, as parents, as well as the educators, to understand what the data and the science and the studies and the research show actually make a big difference in terms of school improvement -- because that's what we are basing this stuff on.
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