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The heads of the team that discovered the drug were paid a percentage of the profits of its sales. And thalidomide was a big seller.
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Intellectual property rights are sometimes hailed as the mother of creativity and invention. However, Marshall Brain points out that many of the finest examples of human creativity—from scientific discoveries to creation of literature, art, music and design—were motivated not by a desire for profit but by other human emotions, such as curiosity, a
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L’histoire la plus fabuleuse restant celle de Margaret Keane : son mari vendait carrément les œuvres de son épouse en les signant de son nom à lui. Ce n’est que bien des années plus tard qu’elle a révélé l’injustice, en direct à la radio.
Guillaume MEURICE • Petit éloge de la médiocrité (French Edition)
kulesa.substack.com • Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Dennis figured out how to profit in the real world from an understanding of behavioral finance decades before Nobel prizes were handed out to professors preaching theory.
Michael W. Covel • The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires
Many other research institutions were created, often on a scale unthinkable at the metropole,