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(04-21-2025 08:33 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:Incredible chart from The New York Times. The federal government gives 30 times as much research funding to universities as it did during the Cold War, adjusted for inflation. It gives almost three times as much as it did at the end of the Cold War.

Is America more innovative or better at research than it was 25 years ago? Just the opposite: Universities have fat endowments and thousands of highly-paid administrators, but their actual work is less impressive by the day.

Not only that, but campuses have embraced ideological poisons like DEI and critical race theory that are a death sentence for authentic science. And of course, every year brings another 4-5% hike in tuition.

The Trump Administration is right to demand immediate change. No more racial discrimination. No more Marxism masquerading as science. No more waste.

Charlie Kirk?

Im impressed at the insta-metric of "but their actual work is less impressive by the day."

In the MSE spaces, the developments today are pretty damn impressive, from my perspective. But hey, glad to know that "but their actual work is less impressive by the day". Little did I know that the ultimate fountain of all knowledge Charlie Kirk has deemed it to be. Color me as corrected.

(04-22-2025 09:39 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Im impressed at the insta-metric of "but their actual work is less impressive by the day."

In the MSE spaces, the developments today are pretty damn impressive, from my perspective. But hey, glad to know that "but their actual work is less impressive by the day". Little did I know that the ultimate fountain of all knowledge Charlie Kirk has deemed it to be. Color me as corrected.

just look at the improvement in the accuracy of hurricane track predictions, a lot of which is driven by partnerships between NOAA and academic institutions directly or indirectly (via training of PhD modelers).

I found this article that has a great graphic showing how the cones of uncertainty have shrunk over time: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather...10482.html

Clearly Charlie Kirk isn't actually stepping inside the labs and offices of professors working on campus when he shows up to debate undergrads...

(04-22-2025 11:32 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(04-22-2025 09:39 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Im impressed at the insta-metric of "but their actual work is less impressive by the day."

In the MSE spaces, the developments today are pretty damn impressive, from my perspective. But hey, glad to know that "but their actual work is less impressive by the day". Little did I know that the ultimate fountain of all knowledge Charlie Kirk has deemed it to be. Color me as corrected.

just look at the improvement in the accuracy of hurricane track predictions, a lot of which is driven by partnerships between NOAA and academic institutions directly or indirectly (via training of PhD modelers).

I found this article that has a great graphic showing how the cones of uncertainty have shrunk over time: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather...10482.html

Clearly Charlie Kirk isn't actually stepping inside the labs and offices of professors working on campus when he shows up to debate undergrads...

But the one area where he is dead on correct is the stupid wastage on environmental engineering grants. Worthless field at the start --- <grin>

(04-22-2025 11:52 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(04-22-2025 11:32 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(04-22-2025 09:39 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Im impressed at the insta-metric of "but their actual work is less impressive by the day."

In the MSE spaces, the developments today are pretty damn impressive, from my perspective. But hey, glad to know that "but their actual work is less impressive by the day". Little did I know that the ultimate fountain of all knowledge Charlie Kirk has deemed it to be. Color me as corrected.

just look at the improvement in the accuracy of hurricane track predictions, a lot of which is driven by partnerships between NOAA and academic institutions directly or indirectly (via training of PhD modelers).

I found this article that has a great graphic showing how the cones of uncertainty have shrunk over time: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather...10482.html

Clearly Charlie Kirk isn't actually stepping inside the labs and offices of professors working on campus when he shows up to debate undergrads...

But the one area where he is dead on correct is the stupid wastage on environmental engineering grants. Worthless field at the start --- <grin>

Dirty dirt is bad

I always felt the Decade of Innovation was the 60's - space race, NASA, moon.

(04-22-2025 09:39 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Im impressed at the insta-metric of "but their actual work is less impressive by the day."

In the MSE spaces, the developments today are pretty damn impressive, from my perspective. But hey, glad to know that "but their actual work is less impressive by the day". Little did I know that the ultimate fountain of all knowledge Charlie Kirk has deemed it to be. Color me as corrected.

It's SOOO not impressive that there are cancer drugs that can target very specific tumors and shrink them into nothingness. Ongoing development of cancer vaccines is also EXTREMELY unimpressive. Who even wants that anyway?

/s