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Uncover why life keeps getting harder for the middle class — from frozen housing to aging societies — and what we can do to rebuild the dream.
Fully deserved!! Amazing book
May 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thank you so much for your invaluable knowledge in these times
May 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein.
Detected 100 years later by LIGO—thanks to NSF-funded research at Caltech & MIT.
Public science confirming cosmic truth.

#LIGO #GravitationalWaves #NSF
April 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The mRNA vaccine that helped fight COVID?
Built on decades of NIH-funded research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Science doesn’t happen overnight—it needs support.

#mRNA #COVIDVaccine #NIH
April 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Your phone’s lithium-ion battery?
Thank John Goodenough at UT Austin and federal funding from the DOE.
One of the biggest energy breakthroughs ever.

#BatteryTech #DOE #CleanEnergy
April 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
You know GPS helps you get around. But its precision?
Sharpened by research at MIT, Stanford, and others—with funding from NASA & the DoD.
Civilian tech born in university labs.

#GPS #NASA #DoD #Innovation
April 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Cancer immunotherapy—like those that won Nobel Prizes—was made possible by federally funded university labs.
Turning the immune system into a weapon against cancer.

#CancerResearch #Immunotherapy #NIH
April 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
MRI tech used to detect tumors, strokes, and more?
Improved through NIH-funded university research in the 70s and 80s.
Quietly revolutionary.

#MRI #MedicalTech #PublicScience
April 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Google started as a research project at Stanford.
Funded by an NSF grant.
Turns out, your tax dollars helped build the world’s most powerful search engine.

#GoogleOrigins #PublicResearch #NSF
April 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
CRISPR, the gene-editing breakthrough that’s changing medicine, was developed at UC Berkeley & the Broad Institute—with funding from the NIH and NSF.
Public science saves lives.

#CRISPR #GeneEditing #NIH #NSF
April 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The internet you’re using right now?
It started as a DARPA-funded project at UCLA and Stanford in 1969.
Public research = world-changing impact.

#InternetOrigins #PublicFunding #USResearch
April 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Human but not a good look because it can be used to pardon Jan 6ers
December 2, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Nations get the politicians that they deserve
November 7, 2024 at 5:20 AM
If you are born in the UK, if you are not and you arrive in your 20s then you most likely be net positive
October 13, 2024 at 5:20 AM
Are you going to join Patreon?
August 18, 2024 at 10:36 AM
So happy to see you hear. You are incredible
August 18, 2024 at 10:35 AM
You are amazing
August 15, 2024 at 10:04 AM
You are amazing
August 8, 2024 at 7:01 AM