More Billions

Today, no new absurdities. Instead, some news.

The Johns Hopkins University has again topped the NSF Research Funding ranking (for the n-th year straight). In fiscal year 2008, it spent almost 1.7 billion USD. Almost half of it went for the Applied Physics Lab APL, for DARPA- and NASA-sponsored research.
That's up 8% from last year, while inflation in the U.S. over the last year hovered at around zero.