Friday 15 October 2010

cheaper science

My brother's 4 year old son had been visiting me(of course with my brother and his wife). I just cleared the house of plastic cups full of stinking water and rotting leaves which were his "experiments"...also one demo of how fold mountains got folded which involved a paper strip covered with garden soil.
I came across a blogpost on the need for cheaper science.
True--if money was what it's all about, why should bright young men/women then join academia? There is better money in the corporate world.

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