Springer, Nature and Elsevier seem to be on a pretty long run to me (19th century).
Every empire comes to an end.
To be fair, this is mostly self inflicted. Nobody forced them to strip the NIH, NASA, etc.
Yep, the numbers back this up. NIH funding has been stagnant in real terms since 2003, and NASA’s budget as % of federal spending is about 1/4 what it was during the Apollo era. Meanwhile China’s reserch spending grew 16% annually from 2010-2020. We’re literally choosing to give up our scientific edge.
The American Empire was showing signs of decline possibly as early as the 1970s but America is collapsed in theologically and the infrastructural pillars holding this place up are being kicked out because of that, which will facilitate further collapse. Blue States should just leave the union already
The voters. The voters forced this.
That’s not wrong, but it’s also reductive and borderline misleading.
Shows the limits of an out of control capitalist county with minimal support to the vast majority of its population.