What a shrimp treadmill can teach us about science funding

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By Amelia UrryNov 17, 2014, 5:15 pm34 pts
When you picture the extravagancies of government spending, what do you see? If your answer is “a tiny marine crustacean jogging in place,” then your memory is a weird place — in 2011, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn (Republican, duh) made some fuss about science grants awarded by the NSF to various…

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