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“Chips Plus Science Act”

This passes in the Senate.

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2022/7/view-the-chips-legislation

Consider this part for NSF:

National Science Foundation Authorization ($81 billion total over 5 years; +$36 billion over baseline)

Invest in Strategic Translational Science. Authorizes $20 billion for the first-of-its-kind National Science Foundation (“NSF”) Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (“TIP”), which will accelerate domestic development of national and economic-security critical technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, 6G communications, energy, and material science. ($20 billion total)
Grow Basic Research.
Supports early-stage research that will create revolutionary new ideas, including in areas such as the food-energy-water system, sustainable chemistry, risk and resilience, clean water systems, technology and behavioral health, critical minerals, precision agriculture, and the impact of satellite constellations on NSF-funded science.

Build the STEM Workforce.
Authorizes funding for STEM education, including scholarships, fellowships, and traineeships to create workers in critical fields, including to establishing an artificial intelligence scholarship-for-service program, a national network for microelectronics education, and cybersecurity workforce development programs. ($13 billion total)

Building Broad-based Research Opportunities.
Grows funding for NSF research activities for universities across the country, including investment in minority serving institutions and emerging research institutions, and by placing EPSCoR jurisdictions on a path to receive 20% of funding in key accounts by FY2029.

Expand Rural STEM Education.
Provides for research and development to increase access to STEM education opportunities in rural schools and to provide teachers with the resources they need to teach more effectively.

AND

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The lectures of Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman were legendary. Footage of these lectures does exist, but they are most famously preserved in The Feynman Lectures. The three-volume set may be the most popular collection of physics books ever written, and now you can access it online, in its entirety, for free.