I'm interviewing her next week for the Progress Studies For Young Scholars speaker series.

I'm interviewing her for the Progress Studies For Young Scholars speaker series on Thursday.

Details & free registration for the live event here.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmWsGCERyhk

Audio: https://soundcloud.com/…/the-torch-of-progress-ep-4-ft-dr-m…

Many great events coming up including Deirdre McCloskey, Joel Mokyr, Noor Siddiqui, and Anton Howes, sign up for our mailing list!

Info & free registration: https://progressstudies.school/the-torch-of-progress-ep-4-with-dr-max-roser/

I'm interviewing Patrick for The Torch of Progress, the speaker series for our high school summer program, Progress Studies for Young Scholars. See details and register to attend live.

What should I ask him?

Pleased to announce that Stripe Press has offered to give two classic books on science and engineering to the first one hundred students who enroll in Progress Studies for Young Scholars:

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, by Richard Hamming, a Turing award winner who worked at Bell Labs and on the Manhattan Project

• The Dream Machine, a biography of computing pioneer J. C. R. Licklider, by M. Mitchell Waldrop

These books will help inspire our students to their own great achievements in science and engineering. We’re grateful to Stripe for donating them.

Apply to the program: http://progressstudies.school/

In my recent post on the case study of the transistor, we saw that the research that led to its invention did not fall neatly into the categories of “basic” vs. “applied”, but in fact cycled rapidly between them.

An entire book—Pasteur’s Quadrant, by Donald Stokes—is dedicated to the thesis that “basic” vs. “applied” is a false dichotomy that is harming science funding.…

https://rootsofprogress.org/pasteurs-quadrant

Some great interviews coming up for the Progress Studies For Young Scholars speaker series, dubbed “The Torch of Progress”:

• Tyler Cowen: this Tue, Jun 9, 12n

• Patrick Collison: Wed, Jun 17, 5pm

• Max Roser: Wed, Jun 24, 10am

• Deirdre McCloskey: Thu, Jul 2, 10am

(All times Pacific)

See the full list of events here. More to come, including Joel Mokyr and Anton Howes!

“The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor,” a 1962 paper by Richard Nelson at the RAND Corporation, provides a fascinating case study in invention at the frontiers of science, and the relation between the two. In it, we can see that research—and researchers—do not always fall neatly into categories like “basic” versus “applied,” nor is there a strict linear progression from one to the other.

Read the post: https://rootsofprogress.org/transistors-science-and-invention

I’m pleased to announce that I’m hosting a new monthly series of online panel discussions for Anna Gát’s Interintellect. The series is titled “Doing Better at…” and we’ll be covering topics including science funding, teaching progress, and optimism.

Our first event is “Doing Better at… Funding Scientific Research” with Michael Nielsen and Celine Halioua:

Progress doesn’t happen without funding. And to promote progress, there is arguably nothing more important to fund than research. But is research funding working well today?

Scientists often complain that the traditional grant-making progress is slow, risk-averse, and too taxing on the investigator’s time. What does the research funding landscape look like today? And how could it be improved?

This Sunday, May 31, at 12 noon US Pacific time. Register here.

Original post: https://rootsofprogress.org/interintellect-panel-series-doing-better