Fast Grants - It's Not a New Thing

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The use of the internet to spread science was a big factor. Philanthropist stepping up his own effort, fast grants. The idea that you would get grants to top researchers within a number of days and make the submission form ereasy. And we did that to a scale of about forty three million dollars,. We could have done more, and it had a pretty substantial impact....

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On this special year-in-review episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler to talk about the most popular—and most underrated—episodes, Tyler's personal highlight of the year, how well state capacity libertarianism has fared, a new food rule for ordering well during the pandemic, how his production function changed this year, why he got sick of pickles, when he thinks the next face-to-face recording will be, the first thing he’ll do post vaccine, an update on his next book, and more.

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