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> Thank you for coming to my TED talk. Ha ha, well here's mine. First, I'm way ahead of Mr Gates: I'm already worth almost nothing. But if I had billions to g
by heresie-dabord 1y ago
> Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Ha ha, well here's mine. First, I'm way ahead of Mr Gates: I'm already worth almost nothing.
But if I had billions to give, I would be supporting Science Education, Democracy and Journalism. Scholarships for bright, motivated students.
With all due respect to Mr G, I don't believe any of his objectives is possible with stable, educated, science-orientated social progress. Humanity depends on it.
- heresie-dabord 1y ago* s/with/without/
- 11101010001100 1y agoThey fund students through grants to PIs. I suspect the amount is on the order of 100M$.
- fooker 1y agoThat’s like 25 research groups for 5 years, there are about two orders of magnitude more than that.
- carstenhag 1y agoThat could help in the long run, but you could also help people not die. Both are good causes and need funding