Do glitzy awards like the Earthshot Prize actually help fight climate change?
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The Impact of Science Prizes on Innovation and Technology
Sally Kohn: Do these prizes have a measurable beneficial impact on whatever they're trying to solve? She says the amounts that we're talking about, which sound like a lot, are really a drop in the ocean. Kohn: On the other hand, from a media perspective, from a public attention perspective, it does quite well. It might get a lot of attention in a way that more conventional approaches do not.
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