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"Not only do patents push higher prices onto consumers, they burden the research world with the increased costs of paying for the intellectual property needed to do further research. Research labs have to pay thousands of dollars for the strains and processes needed to build upon current developments, adding more costs to cutting-edge research. "

Fully funded -- no need for scientists to chase grants No responsibilities besides research -- no teaching load, no administration All scientists have to be hands-on -- at the bench A focus on a fairly narrow set of difficult, high-payoff research challenges No tenure -- senior scientists have a five year term and then may or may not be re-signed (My favorite) Research groups can have no more than 6 members. This means that they cannot possibly have all the skills they need inside their team and so will have to get out of their own lab and get to know the other people in the place so they can get the help they need. All of this is nestled in a facility with amenities intended to increase mingling, interaction and ultimately collaboration.

Intercultural Center for Research in Education (INCRE) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to research, development and technical assistance with the purpose of promoting quality and equity of education in the United States and internationally through projects that integrate humanistic education, science, technology and education for the preservation of life on our planet.

"improvscience accelerates effective collaboration. learn to build rapport, boost listening skills, and build with people across research areas and disciplines."

"We are a growing community of researchers devoted to designing scalable solutions that drive better care at the most critical moments in people's lives everywhere. Our goal is not a grant or publication, but simple discoveries that actually produce better outcomes, greater value, and more caring across the world."

a review of books by a biologist, a sociologist, a lawyer "Understanding race as a producer of health outcomes, but not a result of genetic programming, doesn't suggest that we abandon biomedical research as it relates to race, but it does suggest that looking for race-oriented genetic precursors of disease is a fruitless labor."

an initiative to build an international infrastructure, open to public as well as researchers. mimics what it studies.

"Many of the patrons, they say, are ignoring basic research - the kind that investigates the riddles of nature and has produced centuries of breakthroughs, even whole industries - for a jumble of popular, feel-good fields like environmental studies and space exploration." [One might ask analogously what military funding of science has done over the decades since WW2]

"Part of the scientific enterprise is to disseminate the results of research to other scientists as well as to people outside of academia."

NY Times article. "These days, the comments section of any engaging article is almost as necessary a read as the piece itself - if you want to know how insider experts received the article and how those outsiders processed the news"

"Beginning in 1946, U.S. Public Health Service investigators in Guatemala, funded by the National Institutes of Health, engaged in immoral, unethical, and illegal experiments infecting victims with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases, without the victims' informed consent. The U.S. has left the victims untreated and uncompensated to the present day."