Basic science is about creating opportunities

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1	Original post on Oscillatory Thoughts blog: Basic science is about creating opportunities	http://blog.ketyov.com/2012/02/basic-science-is-about-creating.html
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3	Studying monkey social behaviors and eating habits lead to insights into HIV	http://www.radiolab.org/2011/nov/14/
4	Research into how algae move toward light paved the way for optogenetics: using light to control brain cells	http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v8/n1/full/nmeth.f.321.html
5	Black holes gave us WiFi	http://www.icrar.org/news/news_items/wireless_inventor_honoured
6	Optometry informs architecture and saved lives on 9/11	http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan03/basic.aspx
7		http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-01/gamification-data
8	Basic physics experiments and the Fibonacci sequence help us understand plant growth and neuron development	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14-NdQwKz9w
9	Astronomers informing medical imaging	http://www.ted.com/talks/michelle_borkin_can_astronomers_help_doctors.html
10	Biologists studying animal locomotion leads to insights for developing more versatile robots	http://polypedal.berkeley.edu/twiki/pub/PolyPEDAL/PolyPEDALMedia/TheStickybot-Forbes.com.pdf	http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_animal_movement.html
11	Studies in slime mold colony building and leaf vein structure inform better designs for city planning and infrastructure	http://culturingscience.wordpress.com/tag/urban-planning/
12	Researchers exploring manganese oxides for some interesting electronic properties discover perfect blue pigment	http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/11/24/scientists-discover-a-perfect-blue-pigment%E2%80%94entirely-by-accident/
13	Einstein's theory of relativity enables GPS to work.	http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html
14	Fleming wanted to figure out why bacteria were not growing in dirty petri dishes, and discovered penicillin
15	Mendel wanted to know more about breeding sweet peas, and out came the modern evolutionary synthesis
16	Investigations of why particular bacteriophages could not infect certain strains of bacteria (restriction) led to the discovery of restriction enzymes, which were essential for genetic engineering.
17	Barnett Rosenberg tried to investigate effects of electric currents on bacterial growth. He then realised that his results were due to an electrolysis product form a platinum electrode. This led to the use of cisplatin - the first platinum-based anti-cancer agent.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer_chemotherapy#Platinum-based_agents
18	Studying the hot spring scum Thermus aquaticus lead to a revolution in modern molecular biology (High Temperature Stable Polymerase)	http://www.genetics.org/content/146/4/1207.full.pdf
19	Studying how bacteria fight off viruses led to CRISPR	http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/22/editing-human-embryos-so-this-happened/
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