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Investment in science
On Monday Obama delivered this speech, stating that “Science is more essential for our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment and our quality of life than it has ever been before.”
He said his administration would double the budgets of key agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and pursue the goal of cutting carbon pollution by 80% by 2050.
“Energy is our big project,” he said. “My recovery plan provides the incentives to double our nation’s capacity to generate renewable energy over the next few years.”
The word ’science’ comes from the Latin ’scientia’, meaning “knowledge”. Science is the effort to discover and increase human understanding of how reality works.
Sad that the percentages are so low…. Obama’s goal is 3% of GDP by 2010. Meanwhile Japan spends almost 4.0%; Korea more than 3.2%; and China over 1.4% of its GDP on R&D. Heading in the right direction, but not exactly Rargian.
Discovery, discovery, discovery
‘This is the story of Rarg – a world of peace and tranquility. A world so perfect that the sun never rose until it was absolutely sure everybody was awake.
Their vast library is filled with books, documenting the revelations of generations. For they discovered simply for the sake of discovery. So everybody was happy. The senator was never happier than when he was discovering new forms of happiness.
Every day discoveries were made, some were large, some were tiny, and some discoveries had to be seen to be believed.’
Fabulous. Discovery is everything. New rule: if it wouldn’t get into the Rarg library, don’t put it out there.
Consider the whole idea of contributing to a library that documents the revelations of generations; and what that means… and how about Discovery as a vision for the world – consider the impact of that on what each of us achieves during our lifetime and the collective lifetime of the human race.
Okay, it’s a kid’s cartoon, but Rarg says it all!
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