{"id":640,"date":"2011-05-21T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2011-05-21T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:21:30","slug":"how-to-fund-research-so-that-it-generates-insanely-great-ideas-not-pretty-good-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/how-to-fund-research-so-that-it-generates-insanely-great-ideas-not-pretty-good-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fund research so that it generates insanely great ideas, not pretty good ones."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2293699\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">Positive Black Swans<\/a>&#8221; by Tim Harford From<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/\"> Slate <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Still, after a few years, Capecchi had decided that Harvard was not for  him. Despite great resources, inspiring colleagues and a supportive  mentor in Watson, he found the Harvard environment demanded results in  too much of a hurry. That was fine, if you wanted to take predictable  steps along well-signposted pathways. But Capecchi felt that if you  wanted to do great work, to change the world, you had to give yourself  space to breathe. Harvard, he thought, had become &#8220;a bastion of  short-term gratification.&#8221; Off he went instead to the University of  Utah, where a brand-new department was being set up. He had spotted, in  Utah, a Galapagan island on which to develop his ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mario Capecchi developed the approach for generating knock0ut mice and received the <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/2007\/speedread.html\">Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article &#8220;Positive Black Swans&#8221; by Tim Harford From Slate Still, after a few years, Capecchi had decided that Harvard was not for him. Despite great resources, inspiring colleagues and a supportive mentor in Watson, he found the Harvard environment demanded results in too much of a hurry. That was fine, if you wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}