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Darren Lipomi
1. Science Nonfiction
Science Nonfiction Behind the Scenes in University Research
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Darren LipomiSpieldauer
5 Stunden und 36 Minuten
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
01.06.2026
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Lesung
Fassung
ungekürzt
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MP3
Anzahl Dateien
17
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Lantern AudioSprache
Englisch
EAN
9781971980126
In Science Nonfiction: Behind the Scenes in University Research, scientist and educator Darren J. Lipomi offers an insider's account of how scientific discovery works in the real world. Drawing on two decades inside elite laboratories and public universities, he explains how discovery is funded, who bears the risk, and why the people doing the most creative work often occupy the most precarious positions.
Lipomi reveals a system few outsiders ever see; public grants that function as tightly regulated risk capital, graduate students subsidizing research with their prime earning years, prestige concealing chronic insecurity, and curiosity constrained by time, funding cycles, and institutional incentives. Using his own career—from working-class beginnings to training at Harvard and Stanford and leadership roles in academia—as an explanatory lens, he shows how incentives, power, and politics shape what knowledge gets made.
Clear-eyed, humane, and written with understated humor, Science Nonfiction captures both the ingenuity and the absurdities of life in the lab. It argues that despite its contradictions, academic research remains one of society's most ambitious collective bets on the future—and one worth understanding as that bet is increasingly questioned, constrained, and politicized.
Lipomi reveals a system few outsiders ever see; public grants that function as tightly regulated risk capital, graduate students subsidizing research with their prime earning years, prestige concealing chronic insecurity, and curiosity constrained by time, funding cycles, and institutional incentives. Using his own career—from working-class beginnings to training at Harvard and Stanford and leadership roles in academia—as an explanatory lens, he shows how incentives, power, and politics shape what knowledge gets made.
Clear-eyed, humane, and written with understated humor, Science Nonfiction captures both the ingenuity and the absurdities of life in the lab. It argues that despite its contradictions, academic research remains one of society's most ambitious collective bets on the future—and one worth understanding as that bet is increasingly questioned, constrained, and politicized.
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