{"id":1949,"date":"2012-09-06T21:47:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2012-09-06T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T20:47:28","slug":"science-cash-hike-a-wise-gamble-say-brain-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/06\/science-cash-hike-a-wise-gamble-say-brain-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Science cash hike &#039;a wise gamble&#039;, say Brain Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolloschildren.com\/brian\/images\/brian2.jpg\" alt=\"cox\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The UK science budget is about \u00a35.5bn each year\u2026 on a government spend of over 600 billion. That&#8217;s for everything &#8211; medical research, Cern, engineering, arts and humanities; the whole thing. It&#8217;s below most global averages, the OECD&#8217;s for example,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Prof. Brian Cox, University of Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Prof. Brian Cox was speaking at  the British Science Festival in Aberdeen. The Manchester University researcher was speaking before his guest lecture at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out that public engagement with science was vital to the  future sustainability and growth of British science. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-19513921\" title=\"BBc News\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishscienceassociation.org\/web\/britishsciencefestival\/\" title=\"British Science Festival\" target=\"_blank\">British Science Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolloschildren.com\/brian\/\" title=\"Brian Cox's homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cox&#8217;s homepage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The UK science budget is about \u00a35.5bn each year\u2026 on a government spend of over 600 billion. That&#8217;s for everything &#8211; medical research, Cern, engineering, arts and humanities; the whole thing. It&#8217;s below most global averages, the OECD&#8217;s for example,&#8221; Prof. Brian Cox, University of Manchester Prof. Brian Cox was speaking at the British Science &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/09\/06\/science-cash-hike-a-wise-gamble-say-brain-cox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science cash hike &#039;a wise gamble&#039;, say Brain Cox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}