After all, it was science that won the war and gave Admiral Rickover his nuclear navy.
Paul Krugman turns up in one of the UK papers to assail the Republican war on science.
The post-Sputnik era drove the rapid growth in PhD physicists that came to an abrupt halt as the Vietnam war drained the science budget.
The post-war expansion of university science was based on the assumption that to invest in knowledge was to invest in growth.
This is the creep of the culture war into all areas of American life: science, media, charity, even the Girl Scouts.
But our collaboration really entered high gear in 2006, when we wrote three covers together: on how marketing had overtaken science in the drug industry, how we were losing the war on drug-resistant bacteria, and on how medical devices were slipping through without enough proof they were safe and effective.
"So the cutting edge in science shifted from England to Germany with catastrophic results" in World War II, Mr. Kaku concludes.
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Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
In 1972, not long after strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Misuari quit his job teaching political science at the University of the Philippines to lead the MNLF into a guerrilla war.
Events in Lebanon could spin out of control, even if rival Lebanese groups don't want Syria's war to be exported to Lebanon, said Hilal Khashan, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut.
Although the federal government's support for basic research so far shows no sign of waning, academics wonder how durable that commitment will prove now that, post cold war, national security has become less of a reason to invest in science.
In songs like "Political Science, " "The Great Nations of Europe" and others, he has skewered war, racism and greed in a style that combines biting humor with his unique piano playing.
He makes this case by offering pen-portraits of four charismatic war leaders who were not career soldiers themselves but nonetheless refused to be blinded by military science or fobbed off by senior officers who insisted that they knew best.
In the aftermath of another world war, the city is turned into a fantastic high-tech slum that invites comparison with the science-fiction movie Blade Runner.
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