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• Exploitation

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 425
  At the last Meeting of the RAS Council on October 9th 2009 , Professor Keith Mason Chief Executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) made a presentation after which he claimed that STFC spends too much on “exploitation”, i.e. on doing science with the facilities it provides. This statement ...
  1 week ago

• I Did Expect the Spanish Inquisition…

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 425
  So that was it. D-Day. Our application to the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for a rolling grant to cover the next 5 years of astronomy research went in a  few months ago. Over the summer we got feedback from independent referees. But today was the crunch. The dreaded panel visit. In the old ...
  3 weeks ago

• (PGR) Progressive Corporation: Earnings Preview

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 532
  Progressive Corp. (PGR) is expected to release its third quarter results before the market opens on Oct 14. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for this stock is 33 cents per share. In the prior-year period, the company had reported earnings of 31 cents per share. Progressive’s earnings for August were impressive as the ...
  3 weeks ago

• One Billion Dollars

  
  Orbiting Frog — Authority: 526
  With the recent furore over LCROSS , the current S TFC funding debacle and much recent discussion of manned spaceflight , I was reminded of this wonderful image showing the meaning of a billion dollars. It is relevant to astronomy because it puts into perspective where space exploration and research sit amongst ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ground-based review : going, going ….

  
  The e-Astronomer — Authority: 106
  I guess you have all been poring over the draft report of the Ground Based Facilities Review, trying to decode its somewhat incomprehensible ranking scores, and either getting excited because your horse is in the lead, or fuming because they have obviously misunderstood why your favourite 4m telescope is crucial. You ...
  3 weeks ago

• Darwin and After

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 425
  Another sign that the academic year is back into full swing is that the monthly meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society have started up again after the usual summer hiatus. Since I’ve got a very heavy week coming up, I thought I’d take the advantage of a bit of breathing space in my timetable to attend ...
  4 weeks ago

• Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  A team led by physicists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have resolved a decade-long puzzle that is set to have huge implications for use of one of the most versatile classes of materials available to us for future technology applications: copper oxide ...
  4 weeks ago

• Back to Life, Back to Reality

  
  Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line — Authority:
  While Ive been galavanting across Europe and the USA, the ongoing UK science-funding crisis has entered a new, possibly even grimmer, phase. The STFC itself is so strapped for cash it will only be issuing grants lasting until October 2010 , instead of the usual two or three years. This is rumored to be engendered by ...
  4 weeks ago

• Back to Life, Back to Reality

  
  Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line — Authority:
  While Ive been galavanting across Europe and the USA, the ongoing UK science-funding crisis has entered a new, possibly even grimmer, phase. The STFC itself is so strapped for cash it will only be issuing grants lasting until October 2010 , instead of the usual two or three years. This is rumored to be engendered by ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Very Big Stupid

  
  In the Dark — Authority: 425
  Sitting on the train yesterday coming back from a night at the Opera , I was reading The Observer . Last week’s edition had featured a superb piece by comedian David Mitchell on the topic of research funding. His argument, essentially, was that the government shouldn’t be directing its research funding at ...
  4 weeks ago

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