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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 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.



That could help in the long run, but you could also help people not die. Both are good causes and need funding


They fund students through grants to PIs. I suspect the amount is on the order of 100M$.


That’s like 25 research groups for 5 years, there are about two orders of magnitude more than that.


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