Actually I am a cancer researcher who has published in all the areas you just rattled off so yeah...idiot.
You did help me with one thing, I've used this website since the beginning and it is now dominated by uncivil discourse.
Got better things to do.
Goodbye forever /.

The science job system is broken. The main problem is the federal subsidy of Graduate Student Stipends and Postdoctoral Fellowship salaries from grants. This has led to the situation of an oversupply of bright people in what amount to full time jobs with no benefits with little chance to achieve a rare faculty post. The fix is to stop the subsidy. Institutions need to take on fewer graduate students, pay them more and train them fully. Bolster the Master's degree for the less committed. The Postdoc should be eliminated and replaced with the term Contract Researcher which should be treated like a job. These people should be paid market rates so they can move to whomever is smart enough to get a grant.
For the kids out there, the current system is a sort of feudal concoction built to maximize imperious egos and is fundamentally exploitive.
Advise: go into science if you have the desire. Go to a good undergraduate school but if you do not get into one of the best institutions for grad school DO NOT GO.
It's that bad out there and it's winner take all.
Science is a rewarding profession but the hardest thing to understand is that even if you do everything right your career can still fail so you have to be brave. You also have to have GENERAL/VERSATILE knowledge to adapt with the times.
The parent article is predicated on the assumption that Science equates with dollars for science. Once basic science in an area is well formed it becomes technology and society has no compelling reason to keep paying for it. Tenured faculty who continue to burn out grad students working on subjects "understood" decades ago are part of the problem here.
Finally: biology is a vast frontier but the NIH wants cures. You don't have to fully understand cancer to kill it.

We are all DEVO.

And learn to haggle in some language not your own. In my set of engineers scientists lawyers and physicians do you know who has his own jet? The dumb one who took Mandarin and set up a business importing Jeans.
And also it is a real problem in France not to have mastery of the world's second language.

...and the United States is ruled by attorneys whose sole purpose in this world is to pollute it with paper.

This one for example.
Starshade

Like there is not enough branding at a Major League Game?
Like Ad revenue isn't way way off.

Falcon 9 runs on Linux kernal. Not sure if it's Ubuntu or Red Hat tho.l

Troy Roberts,

This rather nice documentary deals nicely with grid batteries.

Hey Apple produce something of value.
Remove drudgery:
1) Fold Laundry
2) Clean Dishes
3) Vacuum and dust well (sorry Roomba)
etc...
You think the consumer really needs something to play a record for them?

Nobody reads.
The combo of conferences and the lecture circuit is how impactful science is circulated.
The journal article provides the details to the interested.
The ONLY purpose of a journal is to assure that someone reviewed the work.

Nuff Said

This story is probably relevant to /. because I've known many coders who suck down sugar soda or Aspartame soda like no tomorrow. Having followed the dementia research I put it to ya'll that a nice hot cup of tea most probably the best way to a slake thirst and keep those neurons chugging away. A bit of cream or sugar is just fine. There is a growing body of evidence correlating Alzheimers/Dementia to diabetes and metabolic imbalance and our choice of drinks is likely to be a contributing factor. Plus it is so civilized.

...and it is not a golden age. It is an age of moves made on a computer with a cheap reliance on phony computer special effects. Modern movies look totally phake.