As part of how the government provides funding, and how it has done so for decades, federal agencies like the NIH – most typically through highly competitive grant processes – allocate funding to ...

Dr. Roger Albin, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, writes: Thanks for posting on the NIH demarche on indirect cost rates. As commented in the NYT article, this would severely wound ...

The great studio musician/pianist Nicky Hopkins was the core of this short-lived band, which produce one album, from which this nice song comes: Feel free to link to other Sweet Thursday songs, or ...

Dr. Roger Albin, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, writes: Thanks for posting on the NIH demarche on indirect cost rates. As commented in the NYT article, this would severely wound ...

I suspect, is motivated mostly by the need to save money to fund tax cuts for Trump and other members of the plutocracy: The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday to cap a ...

The Holmesian "Bad Man" does not believe in legal (or constitutional) obligations: the only relevance of the law is that it affects the calculation of what is in his interest. If the probability of ...

Philosopher Chad Engelland writes with an interesting query: A friend who is reading my CUP Divine Hiddenness book manuscript suggested that readers today tend to skip right over introductions and to ...

Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into ...

Previous discussions on the blog have noted the bad funding situation for PhD students in philosophy in Canada. The situation in the U.S., where many (but certainly not all) of the top programs are ...

That may be changing. Rioters who assaulted police officers at the Capitol have called for politicians who oppose Mr. Trump to be hanged, declared that “there will be blood,” and that “I plan on ...