Supporters argued today that the Supercollider was the kind of investment in basic science that has led in the past to advances like lasers, transistors and gene-splicing.
Using his 195 pounds of body weight as resistance, the fit, 6-foot 3-inch Mr. Rougier moves rapidly through a series of exercises that would be recognizable to any World War II-era G.I. as the kind of calisthenics performed in basic training.
The labourers rather preferred to be paid in-kind with basic commodities that were not readily available.
My older daughter Abigail taught at Inglewood near the Los Angeles Airport in a bi-lingual third grade and taught partly in Spanish and taught kind of basics in reading — for instance in Spanish.
(Catastrophic coverage plans are available in America, but the market is extremely limited for a number of reasons, including the fact that most states have issued Patients Bill of Rights mandating all kinds of fancy benefits even in basic plans).
As a test of chondrogenic potential, two kinds of MSCs were cultured in basic growth medium supplemented with prolin (40 μg/ml), dexamethasone (39 ng/ml), TGF-β3 (10 ng/ml), ascorbate 2-phosphate (50 μg/ml), sodium pyruvate (100 μg/ml), and insulin transferrin-selenious acid mix (50 mg/ml) (BD Bioscience, Bedford, MA).
Traditionally, the United States, powered by heavy federal investments in basic research, the kind that pursues fundamental questions of nature, dominated the awards.
When I was a venture capitalist, my motto was "it's the biology, stupid". In other words, I constantly reminded myself to focus on investing in fundamental advances in basic biology, the kind that would win Nobel Prizes.
In comparison, IBM spent $5.4 billion—6percentt of revenue and has a much longer tradition of the kind of basic research in physics and computer science that creating the new type of computer will require.
A pilot of a UBI-ish policy whereby people on benefits are paid unconditionally is happening in Utrecht, in the Netherlands; other Dutch towns and cities look set to follow its example, and there are plans to pilot a more ambitious kind of basic income in Finland.
