hotpockets

The philosophies are very different. You have:

1. Low hanging fruit (business) vs. high hanging fruit (science). Businesses can not pursue leads which may only have long time payoffs.

2. Only leads with visible benefit are pursued by business. Whereas science believes that discoveries may have benefits far beyond any visible benefit.

Thus if a society ditches research without any immediate benefits academics believe society would advance much slower.

I've sometimes thought about how I could get paid 2x, 3x, or more. As a graduate student RA it wouldn't be that hard to get 2x. Just do my computer research at a nightshift security job. But how about: RA+security+baby sitting+baking in my portable easy bake oven!

Perhaps this would help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation

I have only just skimmed the paper so far and can't really comment more on it right now.

In case anyone else is interested, this is the link to the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0901.1392v1

I don't think you have anything to worry about. I've scraped Yahoo finance before at about a 1 second request rate, using perl's YahooFinance module.

All I could find on the site was an "artists conception" of cat track. Is there actual data there?

In an informal survey I did, doctors seemed very technophobic. I went to a teaching hospitals website and brought up a list of new residents. 0/10 were members of facebook or linkedIn. Compared to my mechanical engineering lab (I am a graduate student) where it is 5/5.

In my opinion (based on doctors I know), smart people who are technophobic go into medicine.

But I do agree that this area should have tons of opportunity.