The EU has roughly 10 times Russia's GDP. It can easily afford to outspend Russia.
It also has the moral high ground.
The lesson of history is that invaders should not be rewarded.
It's time for Europe to step up.
Athletes from four California universities won 89 Olympic medals. (The United States won 126 total).
Athletes from Stanford University alone won more medals than all but seven countries in the world.
🥇🥈🥉
Do the people who pushed to shut down nuclear plants realize how deadly the alternatives are?
"air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide"
Germany's decision to shut down its remaining nuclear plants is bonkers.
Meanwhile, they have re-opened dirty coal plants.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Wow! This is just from one lab.
The ROI on government grants is astronomical, especially when you consider that most of the value to society from basic science goes way beyond stock market valuations.
Defunding one America's greatest successes is insanely bad policy.
Founders who were PhD or post-doc in my lab at Berkeley, **largely funded by NSF / DoD grants**, start-up, market cap (collected by OpenAI Deep Research)