Nick Zeppos, chancellor of Vanderbilt University and Board member for the Association of American Universities (AAU), recently made the case for science funding:

Is the GPS that soldiers (and probably you) rely on every day “rarified?” Is the LED bulb, which provides affordable and efficient lighting to people around the world, irrelevant? How about a high-tech “exoskeleton” that provides mobility to victims of stroke and spinal cord injuries? Or new drugs to treat Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia and Fragile X Syndrome? How about the Internet? Are these really the kinds of things we want to stop?

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