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I'd like to see these data normalized against parental income, education level, etc. My hypothesis is that there wouldn't be much difference in academic performance for homeschoole…

46 is also the average age for a first-time Porsche buyer.

Those photographs are stunning – and haunting. Thanks for sharing them.

Exactly. Take entrepreneurship: the founder is rewarded financially if he/she succeeds but is punished financially if he/she fails. The banks, on the other hand, were rewarded fina…

This article is biotech-specific, but I'd be curious to know more about how the venture debt landscape looks for tech startups.

Correct. This tumor-mediated disorganization of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is what enables cytotoxic drugs to reach larger cancerous brain lesions, which explains why these grow…

I think that all of your questions come down to two core concepts: therapeutic index and antigen stability. For therapeutic index, you want to identify and target antigens that sho…

This study details the use of a peptide-drug conjugate; these are drugs with peptides (small proteins) chemically conjugated to cytotoxic drugs. The idea behind these conjugated dr…

Just to be clear, this $100,000 was spent to possibly identify a potential treatment for one person's cancer, not one type of cancer in general. In other words, this was a $100,000…

Earlier this year in the Harvard Business Review, Jody and Matt Miller wrote about a phenomenon that is similar in spirit to that of freelancing hackers, which they dubbed supertem…

"Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura." — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Although applicable to more than just tech writing, James Altucher offers some interesting pieces of advice on becoming a better writer: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/33-unu…

Fair enough. Every program I was accepted to, though, did not grant you candidacy from the start as you first had to complete your courses and pass one or more exams.

... a PhD-candidate is usually a first year PhD-student ... This is actually not true. PhD students have to advance to candidacy, which requires completing a set amount of coursewo…

I would say the best realization of this article is that entrepreneur is a state of mind. A willingness to create from nothing in the face of extreem adversity. I agree with this. …