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OR: The Three Sirens of Entropy

photo cred: my dad It’s a grim time for science in America. The National Science Foundation might be forced to fire half its staff, grants are being frozen and reviewed for ideological purity, and universities may see their cut of those grants reduced by 40%. We were bound to end up here sooner or later. Science funding has been riding an atomic shockwave since 1945, buoyed by the bomb and the Cold War and the conviction that we could vanquish our enemies if we just kept cutting checks to the geeks. Now the specter of Soviet submarines isn’t so scary anymore, and our most feared and hated…

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