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Science Unshackled: How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to Be the Basis for Modern Life
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Fascinating stories that describe the unlikely path from quirky idea to useful and essential knowledge.
Why in the world are we paying for all this “basic” research? The answer to this question becomes clear in this romp through the “seemingly useless” world of pure science, where one thing leads to another in ways that result in major scientific advancements.
With a novelistic style, C. Renée James reveals how obscure studies of natural phenomena—including curved space-time, poisonous cone ...