{"id":3256,"date":"2014-09-08T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/?page_id=3256"},"modified":"2014-09-08T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:28:00","slug":"why-invest-in-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-science\/why-invest-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Invest in Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science research is expensive, and we may not see returns on investments in research for decades. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2012\/08\/07\/with-all-the-suffering-in-the-world-why-invest-in-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> tells the story of Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun working in Zambia, who wrote a letter to NASA asking how they could justify spending billions when there are starving children in the world. The response from Ernst Stuhlinger is incredible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/2012\/08\/07\/with-all-the-suffering-in-the-world-why-invest-in-science\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3257\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/files\/2014\/09\/science-or-suffering-490x213.jpg\" alt=\"science or suffering\" width=\"490\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/files\/2014\/09\/science-or-suffering-490x213.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/files\/2014\/09\/science-or-suffering-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/files\/2014\/09\/science-or-suffering.jpg 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Discussion Questions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you benefit from past investments in science?<\/li>\n<li>How much of our economy is fueled by science and technology? Are the primary benefits of research economic?<\/li>\n<li>Do you find Dr. Stuhlinger&#8217;s response compelling? Have the events of the last forty years changed these arguments?<\/li>\n<li>Why does he list the &#8220;Earthrise&#8221; picture as perhaps the most important result of the space program?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em>Join the Conversation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We welcome comments on this or other related topics on the main Spotlight page<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to\u00a0<a title=\"Exploring the Natural Sciences\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-science\/\">Michael Daugherity&#8217;s Spotlight page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science research is expensive, and we may not see returns on investments in research for decades. This article tells the story of Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun working in Zambia, who wrote a letter to NASA asking how they could justify spending billions when there are starving children in the world. The response from Ernst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3608,"featured_media":3260,"parent":1456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3256","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T2tB-Qw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3256\/revisions\/3261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}