“The Anti-Thiel Fellowship That Pays Students $100K to Build Startups While in School”

“Baum admits that he respects Thiel, but he firmly believes in the value of staying in school. “I suspect that most of these companies will be 8- to 10- to 12-year endeavors,” he said. “Why not stay in school, finish your degree, and use…

“CHINA’S BGI TO SEQUENCE 2,200 GENIUSES IN SEARCH FOR “SMART” GENES”

“Plomin collected the DNA of individuals with IQs over 160 (average IQ is said to be around 100) who had previously participated in a program called the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. … Making the matter more challenging, BGI will accept…

“(Really) learning physics”

“Mazur gives most of the credit for his inception of peer instruction to serendipity. In 1984, when he first began teaching undergraduate physics at Harvard, Mazur recalls, “I never asked myself, ‘How am I going to teach?’ or ‘What am I going to do in the classroom?’ In my mind, it was perfectly…

“DARPA to Utilize Big Data for Causal Relations Study”

“The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to use big data analytics to identify cause-and-effect relationships in complex economic, medical and environmental systems.”…

“The Nagoya Protocol and Synthetic Biology Research: A Look at the Potential Impacts”

Immunology in the skin

“The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates”

“we were not surprised to find, because of similarities in the experience of beauty…

“A functional genomic perspective on human well-being”

“Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from people with high levels of hedonic well-being showed up-regulated expression of a stress-related conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA) involving increased expression of…

“Male Scientist Writes of Life as Female Scientist”

“”By far,” Barres wrote, “the main difference I have noticed is that people who don’t know I am transgendered treat me with much more respect” than when he was a woman. “I can even complete a whole sentence without being interrupted by a…