And it’s not sitting in isolation; it is almost indistinguishable from 899 experiments which will go nowhere and 100 outright frauds which, after they lead the nightly news, will have your funding body of choice dutifully make sure that penicillin needs more paper for its grants.
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I don’t know if I have a solution for this at the moment, other than not laughing when someone starts a conversation with “I think I am working on something bigger the penicillin.”
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And, in the maybe 30% of lifetimes where I meet someone doing that, hopefully I immediately say “Good news, I have exactly one relevant professional skill. Here is all the money. Make progress on it and I can find you more.”
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@zslayback at@1517fund has been spearheading development of an app with@LambdaSchool students called Founder Grants that connects early stage founders with low (relative) $ grants. For situations where founders aren’t ready for VC/angel but need $1k-$10k kind of thingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Regarding positive impact on humanity, that thing today might be Bitcoin.
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This is exactly what is happening to
@senstweet right now, please learn about@aubreydegrey ! I have a summary/intro here:https://github.com/NathanWailes/SENS …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Like that of much of Silicon Valley, the innovation of PB&J sandwiches can be attributed to the military. Unlike Computers and the Internet, PB&J had no trouble getting on the budget.https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/history-pb-jelly.htm …
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I know for a fact that this is true. Invented a couple of years ago at UCSB. Very hard to find investors for replacements for antibiotics tho.
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bacteriophages
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One must be careful though, discovery means one thing, but history can be ungrateful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodomiro_Picado_Twight …
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