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I was coming here to say the same, but with less words: I fuckin love Quanta. I'm broke as heck, but I really hope people with more discretionary income are able to support them financially <3
> I'm broke as heck, but I really hope people with more discretionary income are able to support them financially That made me smirk considering who launched and funds Quanta: the Simons Foundation. James Simons is the founder of hedge fund: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies and also reponsible for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Simons_theory
Quanta naturally covers research that is funded by Simons Foundation. There have actually been many big news that Quanta has not covered or pretended didn’t exist when writing other articles. It’s a PR arm of Simons Foundation.
Also the writers are decent, but all of the scientific-to-lay explanations and analogies are coming from the researchers, if that wasn’t obvious. They are just paraphrasing since they can’t just write blocks of verbatim quotes or such.
Also yeah, the writers get access to researchers as a part of the funding.