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The Reproducibility Project is a series of crowdsourced collaborations aiming to reproduce published scientific studies, finding high rates of results which could not be replicated. It has resulted in two major initiatives focusing on the fields of psychology [ 1 ] and cancer biology. [ 2 ]
Matching resources from labs across the globe minimizes waste and facilitates research teams’ ability to meet their goals. [4] Sharing tasks across labs can improve the efficiency of a research project, especially highly time-consuming ones. In biology, for example, studying the entire genome takes a lot of time.
Most national laboratories maintained staffs of local researchers as well as allowing for visiting researchers to use their equipment, though priority to local or visiting researchers often varied from lab to lab. With their centralization of resources (both monetary and intellectual), the national labs serve as an exemplar for Big Science.
During the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos hosted thousands of employees, including many Nobel Prize-winning scientists. The location was a total secret. Its only mailing address was a post office box, number 1663, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eventually two other post office boxes were used, 180 and 1539, also in Santa Fe. [15]
The MKULTRA project was under the direct command of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb of the Technical Services Division. [136] The project received over $25 million, and involved hundreds of experiments on human subjects at eighty different institutions. In a memo describing the purpose of one MKULTRA program subprogram, Richard Helms said:
DOUMA, Syria - The industrial-scale drug lab sat just up a hill from a main road on the western edge of Damascus, the city that was the seat of power for the Assad family, which long denied any ...
A comprehensive list of discriminatory acts against American Muslims might be impossible, but The Huffington Post wants to document this deplorable wave of hate using news reports and firsthand accounts.
Mick Ebeling (born June 26, 1970) [1] is an American inventor, entrepreneur, author, speaker and philanthropist who focuses on developing technology that benefits humanity. . Ebeling is the recipient of the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award [2] and was named as one of the Top 50 Most Creative People by Fortune Magazine, a Wired Agent of Change, [3] two time SXSW Innovation Award ...