Common good apps are digital applications designed to create benefits that extend beyond their direct users. Instead of optimizing primarily for advertising revenue, subscriptions, or shareholder returns, they help society […]
Will AIIM Replace Biotech Grant DAOs—or Work Alongside Them?
AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM) is unlikely to eliminate grant-based organizations such as VitaDAO. A more probable outcome is a hybrid scientific economy: specialized DAOs will finance uncertain, capital-intensive projects in advance, […]
Foundations of Mathematics and Fundamental Mathematics: Why the Deepest Research Is Often Underfunded
Foundations of mathematics investigates the logical, conceptual, and structural basis of mathematics itself. Fundamental mathematics develops general theories that may support many other branches, even when they have no immediate […]
Even Great Mathematicians Can Make Poor Moderation Decisions
I once submitted the following comment to Terence Tao’s blog: “I thought with funcoids Kakeya conjecture will become easy, but now I know it didn’t.” The comment was not offensive, […]
From Citations to Utility: Tracking the True Ripple Effect of FOSS and Basic Mathematics
A tiny open-source repository may receive few stars and no academic citations yet quietly become a dependency of software used by major banks, cloud providers, hospitals, and technology companies. Likewise, […]
The Academic Oligopoly: How Five Publishers Drain Billions from Science
Scientific publishing operates through an extraordinary economic arrangement: governments and universities finance research, academics write the papers, other academics review them—usually without payment—and commercial publishers sell access to the resulting […]
Retroactive Public Goods Funding for Hard Science
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RPGF) could finance hard science by rewarding mathematical theories, physics research, datasets, and scientific software after their value becomes visible. Instead of asking committees to predict […]
The Death of the Grant Proposal: Why Scientists Spend 40% of Their Time Writing Instead of Researching
Scientists are trained to formulate hypotheses, conduct experiments, prove theorems, build instruments, and discover facts. Yet the modern research system increasingly requires them to perform another job: marketing unfunded ideas […]
The Cost of Lost Science: How DeSci Can Prevent Decades of Delay
Scientific progress does not stop only when an experiment fails. It also stops when a laboratory runs out of money, a grant committee rejects an unconventional proposal, or a researcher […]
The Micro-Grant Revolution: How Small Donations Keep Critical Laboratory Experiments Running
Scientific experiments do not always fail because the underlying hypothesis is wrong. Sometimes they fail because a laboratory cannot immediately afford a reagent, replacement component, software license, sample shipment, or […]
