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"... to establish a foundation 'for the greatest benefit of humankind.' Nobel envisioned a fund that would support discoveries advancing the human condition. The idea is that rather than celebrating an impressive career, we support discoveries that have pushed the progress of the human race as a whole."
Mary Cundiff
Illustration by Jenny Meng
"Imagine you’re admitted to the ER with a fever and low blood pressure. The hospital’s fancy new AI model flags you as having a 70% chance of sepsis. Sounds bad, right? But what if that 70% chance doesn’t mean what the providers think it means? What if, historically, only half of the people the model called “70% likely” actually had sepsis? That’s what we mean when we say a model is miscalibrated—its predicted probabilities don’t line up with reality."
Sam Blechman
"A good narrative is a powerful tool for communicating scientific results to the general public and other researchers. However, even the best scientist can let a narrative go beyond the evidence. The proverb 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story,' commonly attributed to Mark Twain, implies a power of emotion over logic: a powerful narrative will almost always outpace a convincing piece of evidence."
Alex Cope
Illustration by Mary Cundiff
"Though India had gained independence from the British empire in 1947, there was a challenge that had plagued the country long prior that needed solving in a post-colonial era – the lack of access to substantial nutrition. In the year 1966, the government introduced a set of agricultural programs that came to be known as the Green Revolution."
Nishant Panicker
"Aside from the inherent mystique of originating from outside the solar system, this object exhibits unique characteristics that do not fit the canonical understanding of comets or asteroids. Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, compiled a list of observed features of 3I-Atlas that he uses to inform his estimation that this is no ordinary comet. In fact, he guesses that there’s a 30-40% chance that 3I-Atlas is alien technology."
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