From Walter Faxon.
Gentlemen:
Dr. Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research and a professor of
physics, University of Missouri-Columbia, spoke at The Missouri
Energy Summit, a conference sponsored by the University of Missouri
System, April 22-23, 2009. His subject: Prospects for
From Jed:
From Walter Faxon.
Gentlemen:
Dr. Robert Duncan, vice chancellor for research and a professor of physics,
University of Missouri-Columbia, spoke at The Missouri Energy Summit, a
conference sponsored by the University of Missouri System, April 22-23,
2009. His subject:
You gotta love this man Duncan. He has guts! You should see the
video. His description of getting a call from High Priest of Physics
is hysterical. Help me out with this he says. Ha! I love the last
PowerPoint slide:
Research funding needs to become less dependent on the common
assumptions
This is a breath of fresh air that can make an old cynic have faith
that science is not completely dead. I don't think guts are involved.
Duncan simply had to take the time to explore the data. Any rational
person who does this comes to the same conclusion. We pay entirely
too much
Edmund Storms wrote:
This is a breath of fresh air that can make an old cynic have faith
that science is not completely dead.
Amen!
I don't think guts are involved.
I meant the part where he describes how upset the APS is with him,
and the phone call from a highly prominent Ivy League
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As the smoke cleared, Edmund Storms stor...@ix.netcom.com
mounted the barricade and roared out:
This is a breath of fresh air that can make an old cynic have faith
that science is not completely dead. I don't think guts are involved.
Duncan
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As the smoke cleared, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com
mounted the barricade and roared out:
Edmund Storms wrote:
This is a breath of fresh air that can make an old cynic have faith
that science is not completely dead.
Amen!
I don't think
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