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Tag: Bill Gates

Are major science prizes a form of philanthropy?

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The Association for the Advancement of AI conferred its ‘Squirrel AI Award’ on Cynthia Rudin, and Duke University […]

October 12, 2021 Analysis, Science

Woolly mammoths and a quasi-techbro

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I wrote for The Wire Science about George Church’s idea to repopulate the Arctic tundra with woolly mammoths […]

September 18, 2021 Science

Melinda, Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein)

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I’m not sure what to make of Bill Gates as he features in the New York Times‘s report […]

May 18, 2021 Op-eds

Accumulation then philanthropy

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Peter Woit’s review of a new book about Jim Simons, the mathematician and capitalist who set up the […]

November 23, 2019 Science
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