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Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions

Plos.org 

by Kevin Gross, Carl T. Bergstrom

Scientific research funding is allocated largely through a system of soliciting and ranking competitive grant proposals. In these competitions, the proposals themselves are not the deliverables that the funder seeks, but instead are used by the funder to screen for the most promising research ideas. Consequently, some of the funding program's impact on science is squandered because applying researchers must spend time writing proposals instead of doing science. Читать дальше...

What the Earliest Texts Say About the Invention of Writing

Discovermagazine.com 

Though we call the last several decades of computational invention the Information Age, we might better look thousands of years in the past to see its true beginnings. That's when writing, a system that has served as the basis for our collective store of information ever since, began. This revolutionary idea likely emerged four times in human history: in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica. In each case, it seems that people with no prior exposure to writing invented symboli

Gregg Sulkin & Dominic Sherwood Cover 'Tatler's Young British Hollywood Issue

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Gregg Sulkin joins Dominic Sherwood, Emilia Merkell and Maisie Richardson-Sellers on the cover of Tatler‘s February 2019 issue, on newsstands January 3rd. Here’s what some of the young British Hollywood stars had to share with the mag: Emilia on living in England: “I don’t really feel like I lived in England; I was still a [...]



Governor-General’s New Year Message

Scoop 

Kia ora koutou. Nga mihi o te tau hou. New Year greetings to you all. In 2018, we honoured some great New Zealanders. We marked anniversaries of events that impacted on our country and the wider world.

Man goes ‘bananas’ on store clerk, causes $1K in damage

New York Post 

What happened in this convenience store was absolutely bananas. A 29-year-old man was arrested for assaulting a store clerk with a banana at a QuickTrip in Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday morning, according to police. Rogelio Tapia chased the store clerk around the store and threw the fruit and other items after the clerk intervened...

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Acne Studios switches minority shareholders

FashionNetwork.com (us) 

Acne Studios is bidding farewell to three equity funds. In their place, IDG Capital and I.T Group have acquired 41% of the company's capital, while Mikael Schiller and Jonny Johansson remain majority shareholders.


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