Tag: science

January 9, 2014 0

Breathless in Antarctica Writes

By News Desk

Tweet As of today, both the Akademik Shokalskiy and the Xue Long are in open water SYDNEY, January 08, 13:56 /ITAR-TASS/. The Russian research ship Akademik Shokalsky has finally got out of the ice and reached open water, chief mate Nikolai Velichko told Itar-Tass on Wednesday

January 7, 2014 0

It’s Not a Bug

By News Desk

Tweet A couple of hours ago, Eli pointed out that the Richard Trolls of the world should be pumping up the Spirit of Mawson expedition as a return to the old time way of privately funding exploration.  After all every bunny knows that goverment funding is the distorting devil, put into words by Richard Lindzen it mostly comes down to the money—to the incentive structure of academic research funded by government grants.