In this excerpt from the bicycles episode, we talk about some of the cool stuff about +Nick Maddox‘s bike, the Trek Soho Deluxe 2012. If you like the clip, be sure to check out the full video here, and subscribe to Future Chat on your favourite social network.
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Future Chat: Science 7 – Public Funding for Science
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In the most important episode we’ve tackled so far on Future Sci Chat, we talked about the changes in North American political policy with regards to public and governmental funding of scientific research. This topic is very important to all of us as scientists, but it’s also important to the public in general, and it is important to be informed about just how this can affect you.
If you want to learn more, which you should, here are some links:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_UZ0HHCcE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypPMmaiEo0
- http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-silence-of-the-labs
- http://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/InnovationResearchInvestments-1.pdf
- http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/sciences-worst-enemy-private-funding
- http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/who_pays
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/research-cutbacks-by-government-alarm-scientists-1.2490081
- http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/blog/federal-programs-and-research-facilities-that-have-been-shut-down-or-had-th
- https://explorable.com/research-grant-funding
- http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7043/pdf/435737a.pdf
- http://nghoussoub.com/
Check out the next episode of Future Tech Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern. We’ll be discussing gadgets, it will be a really fun episode!
Future Chat: Tech 21 – Bicycles
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In this episode, we talked about bicycles, making it seem like our episode is sponsored by Trek bikes, which it is not. We chatted all about materials used to make bikes, interesting designs, and how the city of the future will incorporate bicycles much better. Enjoy the episode!
Links:
http://www.trekbikes.com/ca/en/bikes/road/performance_race/
Check out the next episode of Future Sci Chat, live on YouTube next Saturday at 12:30 PM Eastern. We’ll be discussing government funding of science, it should be a VERY interesting episode.
