It seems journalism isn't the only line of work in crisis. In this blog post, Morgan Giddings mourns for the days when institutions like Bell Labs could hire scientists and just turn them loose to develop new knowledge. Now, scientists are pressured to produce marketable results quickly: "People ask me all the time why I gave up a tenured faculty job at a major research university, as if I were insane. Given what is going on in science, am I really all that insane?"
