{"id":1426,"date":"2003-09-08T13:53:12","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/09\/08\/1426.html"},"modified":"2003-09-08T13:53:12","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T20:53:12","slug":"mad-science-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/09\/08\/mad-science-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Science funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cute article in the <cite>Onion:<\/cite> \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/previous_news1.html\">Mad Scientist's Plot Thwarted By Budget Cuts<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In response to recent budget cuts, the National Science Foundation has reduced grants to individual recipients, including those of megalomaniacal researcher Dr. Edward Mortis of Brookhaven Laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>\"My positronic raygun was nearly complete,\" said Mortis at a press conference Tuesday. \"With one gigagram of destructonium [a rare element mined from a meteor belt that passes Earth once every 29 years], I could have ruled the world!\"<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a letter from the NSF informed Mortis that his annual grant will be reduced substantially, from $2 billion a year to a mere $200 million. According to Mortis, the budget cuts will effectively terminate both the Armageddon Project and his work on several outside efforts, including a hyperchronal disrupter, a polysonic transmogricon, and 100,000 killer robots.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, that's not a long-term URL, and I don't know if the article will be available online after it rolls off the \"Previous Issue\" page.  So read it while you can!<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Jen and Kam.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cute article in the Onion: &#8220;Mad Scientist&#8217;s Plot Thwarted By Budget Cuts.&#8221; In response to recent budget cuts, the National&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}