Soviet science: Guardian series, 1

[Jim heartfield]

In message <p04310101b5a220b6f5bd@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood
<dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>[from Johnson's Russia List]
>
>The Guardian (UK)
>24 July 2000
>[for personal use only]
>Town where a Soviet dream turned sour
>Its scientists were the envy of the world. Now some of the top brains are
>manual workers. Our three-part series on the decline and rebirth of Russian
>science begins in Siberia

One of the peculiarities of science in the less developed world is that
it tends to labour intensive but low capital endeavours like
mathematics. Both the former Soviet Union and India have a surfeit of
good mathematicians (and Chess players). You can see a similar trend in
the arts, where labour-intensive animation, Circuses and so on are
strong, but high capital investment industries like television are weak.

-- 
James Heartfield

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