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Steven Weinberg on The Crisis of Big Science
Steven Weinberg in the New York Review of Books looks at how science funding rises and falls from early 20th century until today.
Science Source - Ernest Rutherford holding the apparatus he used to disintegrate a nitrogen nucleus, circa 1917
A time line of scientific funding and funding cuts, Steven Weinberg looks at what happened to the planned and canceled Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) and how politics and economy influence science and vice versa how science influences the economy.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/10/crisis-big-science/
