Tag: 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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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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EU Bank Union. The wrong path... (?)
From EU to a Bank Union. (1) Is this the right foundation for Europe? Can a new state entity be based on money and money alone? Especially when we have seen that not even money can be based on money alone?
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Cosmic gold...
> Help translate the Harmonia Philosophica book in 6 new languages and get valuable perks in return! Support the Indiegogo project now! Gold is created in the stars. (1, 2) Literally. Cosmic explosions generate it. Cosmic chance send it drifting in the Universe. And it finally arrives here to currupt…
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