[heresie-dabord]

> 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.

[carstenhag]

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

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

[fooker]

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

[heresie-dabord]

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