[Logophile]

I know they have a lot of fun with different branches of science at NIST, fun with physics at Batavia, fun with math at the University of Chicago, and fun with biomedical work at a lot of major university hospitals.

I said "fund" not "fun." (I am sure that they have both at the places you mentioned.)

[Fairview]

I said "fund" not "fun." (I am sure that they have both at the places you mentioned.)

By "fun" I meant "doing pure science for the love of it, not because there's going to be a dollar bill at the end of the project." That of course is how scientists operate, or want to operate: many of them would do the work even if they had to pay to get into the laboratory rather than the other way around.