Research and Destroy

“In 2024, the United States spent nearly $1 trillion — roughly 3.5 percent of total economic output — on research and development. When it came to the kind of long-term basic research that underpins American technological and scientific advancements, the government accounted for about 40 percent of the spending. That’s the reason political, education and business leaders in advanced countries and emerging economies have long fretted over a brain drain from their own shores. Now they are seizing a chance to reverse the flow. ‘This is a once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity.'” NYT (Gift Article): The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump. (Don’t worry. We can all do our own research.)