It's actually become a hot area of research.

Depending on the dose, it can cause a mild sense of distortion. In the extreme, people are basically shot out into another reality, another place and time.

I don't think we have anything to gain by not scheduling it. If there were more of a barrier there, that's not a bad thing.

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

You don't go to be the president of a research center and get paid $10 million to go interview undergraduates. This makes him the highest paid human resources director in history.

This is not a single technique, but really a research approach which takes the individual processes that are often studied in isolation and links them together in a model. This is an approach for making full use of the fundamental research in field-scale studies.