I’ll wager that your dispatches make all your other work better (or at least, less painful to write). They definitely make my brain work better - thanks. But I want to try to emphasize how essential your dispatches are. I think they are done “simply for the sake of curiosity, discovery, knowledge”, exactly like Basic Research, which unde…
I’ll wager that your dispatches make all your other work better (or at least, less painful to write). They definitely make my brain work better - thanks. But I want to try to emphasize how essential your dispatches are. I think they are done “simply for the sake of curiosity, discovery, knowledge”, exactly like Basic Research, which undergoes attack at every turn (and needs to be defended). If you insert “dispatches” for “Basic Research”, and “mass media” for “Applied Research” in the following paragraph, I think it captures it:
Why Basic Research?
Why pursue basic research simply for the sake of curiosity, discovery, knowledge, when applied research specifically tackles the world’s biggest problems––poverty, energy, disease, or building new businesses to boost the economy? Faculty say it’s because basic research is the process of creation, and without it, applications vanish.
I’ll wager that your dispatches make all your other work better (or at least, less painful to write). They definitely make my brain work better - thanks. But I want to try to emphasize how essential your dispatches are. I think they are done “simply for the sake of curiosity, discovery, knowledge”, exactly like Basic Research, which undergoes attack at every turn (and needs to be defended). If you insert “dispatches” for “Basic Research”, and “mass media” for “Applied Research” in the following paragraph, I think it captures it:
Why Basic Research?
Why pursue basic research simply for the sake of curiosity, discovery, knowledge, when applied research specifically tackles the world’s biggest problems––poverty, energy, disease, or building new businesses to boost the economy? Faculty say it’s because basic research is the process of creation, and without it, applications vanish.
https://betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issues/spring-2014/the-brilliance-of-basic-research/?device=mobile