by Jane Richey | Sep 20, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $443,010 grant to study tree biodiversity in China. The grant – which funds the project from April 30, 2013 to Aug. 31, 2015 – is designed to “establish an international research coordination network that combines two...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2013 | Agenda 21, Fiscal Responsibility
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is giving nearly $78,000 of taxpayer funds to the Trustees of Boston University to study whether “climate change” was a primary cause for the decline of the Mayan civilization in Guatemala between 1000 BC and 900 AD....
by Jane Richey | Apr 4, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $2.1 million grant over five years for a research project titled, “Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think.” The research project is designed to study how animals think and to promote “the evolutionary link between...
by Jane Richey | Mar 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The federal government is spending $227,437 to investigate how animals have been depicted in National Geographic magazine over a span of 120 years, which federal officials say is an “innovative study” that will examine “images of animals to see how people have changed...
