subplotkudzu | Gone all PEAR shaped

The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory is shutting down.

This saddens me, not just because it means that I'm never going to get a Ghostbusters style proton pack (and if anyone was gonna build one, it would be these guys...), and not because I have a lot of stock in ESP or TK based start ups. But while I may not believe in such things, I would be happier if such things existed. Plus, a little scientific research on these sorts of phenomena doesn't hurt, and I'd rather see it being done by actual scientists with real equipment at a university rather than the Amazing Kreskin with tin spoons on late night TV.

Ah well, science marches on, just as the technocracy wants us to think.