Wednesday, 20 October 2010

BBC News - 'Vital' science spared deep cuts

 

Well it looks like the science budget has not been cut as much as feared (BBC News - 'Vital' science spared deep cuts).

This is good news and will enable “science” to get on with the jobs that are vital to all our futures.  Expect to see a raft of new research programmes designed to better previous endeavours such as :

  • Why flies have wings;
  • Why wildebeests aren’t blue;
  • Why cross-eyed lions can’t see straight;
  • Why the tops of mountains are cold (this will examine the counterintuitive argument that things closer to the Sun are actually colder than those further away); and (not forgetting applied science):
  • How to boil an egg on an electric guitar.

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