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GMO Corn experiment and citizen science(experiment.com)
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by dluan 11y ago
https://experiment.com/projects/gun-control-research-project
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by dluan 11y ago
That's great and very concrete, thanks. It's funny, at those levels is also where more friction starts to get introduced, because suddenly the system rears its ugly head and tries to co-opt it. If you were to regularly bring in $5
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by dluan 11y ago
Of course, no one has yet funded their entire PhD this way. It is however a fantastic way to fund a conference trip. There've been quite a few successful projects funding conference presentations or travel. In my experience speaking wi
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by dluan 11y ago
Sure! Point taken. What do you think it would take for it to work? By the way the number you want is 860 projects launched. The 5,615 figure is people who've started working on a project but haven't launched. So closer to ~42% suc
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by dluan 11y ago
> sex appeal Actually, it's the other way around. Granting agency budgets are so constrained that funders are looking for heuristics to de-risk their funding decisions.
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What about http://experiment.com/curebatten ? Still, big science does not equal good science. In most cases, the opposite is true. I find it's such a huge stereotype, even within research, that scientists forget about t
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by dluan 11y ago
Here are three projects funded by normal human beings. I'd love to hear your thoughts on impact. http://experiment.com/snails http://experiment.com/dicty http://experiment.com/vanek
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by dluan 11y ago
I'm going to argue that direct public funding is the best way, and by that I mean the historical analogy of direct patronage or crowdfunding research today (e.g. experiment.com). Today's 'big science' grant funding model
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by dluan 11y ago
I'd say this article is more along the lines "Is money corrupting politics?", especially as the outcomes of research in this context is usually are aimed at policy (or rather, justifying policy to the masses). If you want to
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William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu Win the Nobel Prize in Medicine(nytimes.com)
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Seven brief lessons: physics illustrations(sevenbrieflessons.com)
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Arduino-powered lemur feeders for zoo enrichment(experiment.com)
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You can check this blog post I wrote a while ago: https://thewinnower.com/papers/72-heroku-for-science
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I actually ask that question myself all the time :)
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Sorry, I meant that CRISPR is helping people design much faster. Hopefully it will open the door for more people to design and use it, but I don't think DNA synthesis is the real technical bottleneck for new ideas here. Current cloning
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by dluan 11y ago
Writing is only a small step, the real goal is virtualization. Also, with tools like crispr, writing is not as big of a problem, per se. Though really, if parallelization is the method maybe a cool benchmark would be sequencing a whole geno
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by dluan 11y ago
One positive light is that before, there was only one big science fair which sort of became the defacto prestigious award. These days kids have so many more options for science fairs and competitions by discipline, but none of them would ex
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TempleOS is fully open source(youtube.com)
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Ray Kurzweil – How the world will change(genius.com)
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Saving Species Along Nicaragua's Inter-Oceanic Canal Route(experiment.com)
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by dluan 11y ago
What was really interesting in this story was seeing how big of a role Weibo and other Chinese tech played.
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I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across the World, and Became a Celebrity in China(buzzfeed.com)
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The Chinese bubble has partially been driven by lots of IPOs ( http://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-ipo-market-leaves-u-s-in-... ).
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I totally understand the symptoms that lead to a rule like that but ain't that throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Or conversely, peer-reviewed pubs can still be muddy bathwater.
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by dluan 11y ago
What bothers me about lazy science communication is that it assumes the reader is dumb. It assumes that the reader won't desire to know the inefficient details, or the context, or why the scientist chose one approach over another. It a
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by dluan 11y ago
Why should HN only be reserved for "official" publications?
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At this point, I'll openly admit it. I despise these types of robotic university press releases, and I fucking despise the patterns of reaction these types of releases are designed to generate. Where is the questioning that's fund
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Science Crowdfunding Case Study: Sequencing Lil Bub's Genome(experiment.com)
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Batman doesn't care about tenure.

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