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What would you like to know about how the new science orgs are run?
Update: What is FreakTakes "about"?
How fast can a bureaucracy grow in a government scientific department?
Birds, Frogs, and...Squirrels?
Feynman on journal reviews, conferences, and the open-mindedness of the physics profession
Four fun anecdotes from the Feynman Oral Histories
Irving Langmuir, the General Electric Research Laboratory, and when applications lead to theory
How Karl Compton believed a research department should be run
A Progress Studies History of Early MIT — Part 3: The end of the beginning
A Progress Studies History of Early MIT— Part 2: An Industrial Research Powerhouse
A Progress Studies History of Early MIT — Part 1: Training the engineers who built the country
Coming pieces from the Engineering Innovation Substack
Unpacking the ‘idea’ of entrepreneurship: A case study in successful translational medicine
We won the war on infectious diseases, but now we need to learn from it
When do ideas get easier to find?
Engineering Innovation Updates
Watson’s Double Helix, one small clue, and the importance of knowing what you don’t know
John von Neumann: A Strange Kind of Bird
New ideas for making optimal use of experts in grant-funding
Is America’s applied and basic research really “applied” or “basic”?
What should new-age research organizations be optimizing for?