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Dr. Benjamin McNeil is a Senior Lecturer at University of New South Wales and creator of Thinkable.org. He wrote this piece for Ars Technica titled “Is there a creativity deficit in science?”

What are the hurdles to professors getting funding?
How can we pursue projects that might not have an immediately apparent payoff?
How did the coupling of scientific “failure” and personal “failure” develop?
To what extent do corporations have a role in scientific research and endeavors?
How science can connect with society?
Organizations as platforms to raise money for your research
We revisit “secret learning” and “new knowledge” (i.e. negative results and/or failures)

Thanks to Ben McNeil again for a great show and interview. You can reach him at ben@thinkable.org. Definitely check out Thinkable.org to see some current projects and give your own projects a shot.

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