“Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.” ImportantStatesHelpingQualityMajorsResearchFruitProducersYieldFarmersCropsStrawberriesImportant WorkRaspberriesWashington StateMarketability Author:Rick Larsen
“Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.” IfsLooksBodyHappensJobsFacesAsksGoneSpecialMajorsResearchNosesYour FaceThreateningComplication Author:Halle Berry
“Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.” HumansWellsReasonFilmSleepSourceHorrorMajorsResearchHollywoodScientistVictimMadAttractionMonstersImpulseDisorderVisionariesPursesMadmenPsychosisOverpoweringHuman PsycheHomicidalMad Scientist Author:Andrew Tudor
“With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising. AIDS is caused by a virus, so it makes sense to study the virus, not chimpanzees. We have learned virtually nothing about AIDS from the chimpanzee. Every major advance in AIDS research ... has come from human studies.” HumansLinesStudyAtheismMajorsResearchRegardAidsAlternativesMake SenseVirusesChimpanzeesCellular Author:Roger Fouts
“For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.” IfsShouldPlayCultureRolesCasesConditionsMajorsResearchBackgroundsPsychologicalFactorsReasonableCopiesMinorsDispositionDomainProgrammesCopyingMultiplication Author:Dan Sperber
“There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world.” IfsWorldLooksBookNamesWrittenMajorsPagesResearchBiggerStatureCopyright Author:Lawrence Schiller
“Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.” LongGovernmentEconomicAuthorityMajorsMassResearchUnderstoodConstitutionBudgetsGlobal WarmingAmendmentsUrbanDocumentsUnemploymentFoundingStampsItemsPackagesStimulusConstraints1930sFramersFood StampsMedicaidInterventionismMass Transit Author:Robert Higgs
“Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.” Has BeensCountryUseTodayHouseEnergySpaceSourceElementsMajorsResearchDiscoveryProgramMedicineCriticalNuclearSmokeEnergy SourcesSpace ProgramPlutoniumBasic ResearchIsotopes Author:Glenn T. Seaborg
“Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.” ShowsFocusMajorsResearchWeaknessStressObstaclesUnder Stress Author:Jane McGonigal
“We would like to see science and higher education developing here [on the Russian Far East], so that it could become one of the major research centres in the entire APR system. Undoubtedly a lot remains to be done here, but given the labour market demand, the relevance of such a university is undeniable.” DoneGivenHigherDemandMajorsResearchRemainsUniversityEastDevelopingLabourCentreRelevanceHigher Education Author:Vladimir Putin
“The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reason that it's basically the only way to afford a family life in the 21st-century in advanced economies. It's one of the major reasons for the spike in income inequality. Surgeons used to marry their secretaries. Now they marry other surgeons.” ThinkingWayReasonUsedSimpleEconomyCenturyMajorsResearchIncomeInequalitySecretary21st CenturyFamily LifeSurgeonsIncome InequalityBeing Popular Author:Stephen Marche
“Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.” PeopleKnowsShouldSupportHealthDutyMajorsResearchOrganizationCancerFraudCancer SurvivorDerelictCancer Research Author:Linus Pauling