To: Logic n' Reason
Egads.
$400,000 for an exhibition "exploring the importance of plants as a source of inspiration for noted American poet Emily Dickinson";$350,000 to explore the "cultural significance of the circus poster";$725,000 to produce a two-hour documentary on the history of American whaling;$130,000 for 16 professors to study the "truth and meaning" of life according to Aristotle; $50,000 to build a computer model of an ancient city in Pakistan complete with "animated and interactive 'inhabitants'"Nearly a half a million dollars to figure out why Emily Dickinson wrote poems about flowers?
2 posted on
10/23/2009 3:40:21 PM PDT by
La Lydia
To: La Lydia
$130,000 for 16 professors to study the "truth and meaning" of life according to Aristotle $130,000 for the grad students of 16 professors to study the "truth and meaning" of life according to Aristotle
5 posted on
10/23/2009 3:45:26 PM PDT by
Mojave
(Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
To: La Lydia
Unlike the National Science Foundation, which is imperfect, NEH is a nest of academic nepotism.
13 posted on
10/23/2009 7:13:18 PM PDT by
TopQuark
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