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Ep252 - Suzie Sheehy | The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World

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Is There a Mind Set Around Funding Curiosity Driven Research?

Do you think there's a mind set around funding these massive curiosity driven projects where the funders are looking for there to be these tangible benefits? Yes, it's an interesting kind of paradox, right? That we we seek to do these experimentss purely out of curiosity with no specific end goll or application in mind. And yet, what these stories that i've written about show us that actually, you know, when we do this, these hard things, there often are enormous impacts in society.

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