Planet Money has some really good episodes. Unfortunately, a lot of filler as well.
Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering
lobut@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
There’s a good NPR podcast in the same vein as this: www.npr.org/…/episode-779-shrimp-fight-club
It’s about congressman talking about government waste and targeting the sciences. It’s like, you don’t get the “cool” applications without the “weird” research. I’m doing a horrible job describing it, but I thought it was a good listen.
hobovision@lemm.ee 9 months ago
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Oh yeah. No one appreciates blue sky research. We don’t know where the question will take us, which is why governments fund the research. They can take on the 0.1% chance something useful is created 20 years later.