February 2012
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Bell System Technical Journal Archives →
If you have a lot of time and inclination for the history of 20th science and engineering, here are the archives for the Bell System Technical Journal. From 1922 to the demise of the Bell System monopoly at the end of 1983, the BSTJ was the the in-house journal. Besides the obvious articles about telephony and telecommunications, there are articles about information theory (the classic paper by...
A Flat Budget for NIH in 2013 - ScienceInsider →
simplystatistics:
The President’s budget proposal would hold the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) budget at the current level of $30.86 billion.
In order to squeeze more grants out of the flat budget—the target is an 8% increase in new grants, to 672, for a total of 9415—NIH will put in place new grant management policies. Continuing grants will be cut 1% below the 2012 level, competing...
