An unprecedented amount of private philanthropy is flowing into science and medicine these days. Multiple private foundations such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Wellcome Trust, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Gates Foundation, each with over $20 billion endowments, focus mostly or solely on science, and there are more philanthropists than can be listed who are willing to donate hundreds of millions of dollars in one fell swoop.| Palladium Magazine
How to secure critical open-source code against memory safety exploits by automating code hardening at scale| Institute for Progress
How the Topos Institute tackles problems in complex systems| www.freaktakes.com
Faster internal reviews instead of external academic ones| www.maximum-progress.com
Tools and tactics for leading coordinated research programs| spec.tech
A few four-legged animal metaphors that explain how we’ve been building global data infrastructure to date and how we might do better in the future.| radiant.earth