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A cursory look at Faraday's wikipedia page suggests that he started off as an assistant to Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution and succeeded him as the Director of the Royal Inst…

So, its a form of Ycombinator for academia.

One could make HN less of a time sink my making HN 'slower'. If only 5 articles appeared in a day, it would hopefully consume far less time and one way of reducing the number of ar…

I intuitively like the idea of the "supposed" but atleast in the west there seems to be a way of counteracting these pressures. It seems to me that "white" children can choose from…

I wonder if a smaller local revolution has happened before: formation and spread of great research universities. Govts have tried to set up great research universities by will, Chi…