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Bob
Following on Jack's point, NSF and USDA have separate budgets - so nothing
spent by NSF would ever go to USDA for applied bee research. The Harvard
study is a NSF basic science computing exercise, and I know well one of the
investigators. \
The video surprised me - none of the team that I know has any aspirations
of producing an artificial pollinator - they're using bees as a model system
to explore computer, robotics, and information systems - much like Srini
uses concepts derived from his bee work in Australia to design better
guidance/autopilot systems for robots, airplanes, helicopters, etc.
So, none of that $10M would have ever been spent on CCD or any applied bee
science - NSF prides itself on being the agency that funds basic
exploratory science.
Jerry
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