Category: Money
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"Philanthropists", science funding, love, care...
Last April, President Obama assembled some of the nation’s most august scientific dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. He spoke of using technological innovation “to grow our economy” and unveiled “the next great American project”: a $100 million initiative to probe the mysteries of the human brain. Along the way, he invoked…
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Measuring earnings. Measuring happiness (?)
It seems that people want to earn more, even though they cannot consume it or use it. (1) The scientists believe that this is because we can measure how much we earn, but we cannot measure how "happy" we are (or how much unhappy we become when we work more and more for things we…
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"Normal" people. Beating the psychopath test.
Can you cheat a psychopath test? (1) People do it every day. How many times have you done something while thinking you should do exactly the opposite? It is more common than you may think. (2) Do not be surprised if you found out that the only main difference between psychopaths in asylums and people…
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Science has secrets!? No no no no no!
Japanese scientists and academics are warning that legislation threatening prison terms for those who divulge and publish what the government deems a state secret threatens academic freedom and the public’s right to know. (1) Hypocrites! You never help by lying! Scientific secrets in the form of government or industrial secrets have for a long time…
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Science. Money. Democratization.
The New York auction house Bonhams hoped to set a world record Tuesday for the sale of a fossil—a controversial specimen containing two dinosaurs. But despite a public bidding war, the final offer of $5.5 million failed to meet the seller’s minimum price, which was somewhere between $5.5 and $7 million. So Bonhams pulled its…
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