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Research & Updates
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April 2024
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
Date
April 18, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2024
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Hear This Idea Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI
Date
March 16, 2024
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2024
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Current Affairs: Why Factory Farming is a Moral Atrocity
Date
March 04, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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January 2024
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InFi Podcast: Tom Davidson on the Likely Progression of AI
Date
January 25, 2024
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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January 2024
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EA Consulting Network: The Case for Developing Specialized Expertise with Lewis Bollard
Date
January 11, 2024
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
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Hear This Idea: Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
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November 22, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
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November 01, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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October 2023
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Good Judgment: Superforecasting AI
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October 19, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2023
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Does Alternative Meat Need Philanthropy to Take It Beyond?
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October 16, 2023
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
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October 2023
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The Indian Express: Bihar to tackle air Pollution with better monitoring
Date
October 11, 2023
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
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September 2023
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Future of Life Institute Podcast: Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
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September 08, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2023
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Freakonomics Podcast: New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
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August 30, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2023
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How I Learned To Love Shrimp Podcast: Amanda Hungerford on Open Philanthropy’s funding for farmed animal welfare
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August 10, 2023
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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August 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk
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August 01, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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June 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Carl Shulman – Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
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June 14, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2023
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The New York Times: What if There Was Never a Pandemic Again?
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May 28, 2023
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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May 2023
May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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May 19, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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May 12, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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May 2023
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
Date
May 05, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Vox: Can society adjust at the speed of artificial intelligence?
Date
March 21, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Vox: The case for slowing down AI
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March 21, 2023
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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March 2023
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Inside Philanthropy: A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs
Date
March 17, 2023
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Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
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February 2023
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Works in Progress: Every generator Is a policy failure
Date
February 24, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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February 2023
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CNBC: Facebook co-founder Moskovitz funds research into cooling the Earth with sunlight reflection
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February 07, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2023
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Devex: Gates, USAID among Open Philanthropy’s $150M regrant contest winners
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January 12, 2023
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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January 2023
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Lunar Society Podcast: Holden Karnofsky – Transformative AI & Most Important Century
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January 03, 2023
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2022
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BBC: What is longtermism?
Date
September 01, 2022
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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February 2022
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Vox: How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth
Date
February 20, 2022
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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January 2022
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Devex: Open Philanthropy launches programs for South Asia, global aid work
Date
January 06, 2022
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
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December 2021
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STAT: For an antiviral researcher, Covid brings a flood of attention — and opportunity
Date
December 20, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2021
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The New York Times: We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror
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December 16, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2021
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Vox: A criminal justice expert’s guide to donating effectively
Date
November 30, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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November 2021
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NPR: On #GivingTuesday, how to get the most bang for your buck
Date
November 30, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
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Vox: These are the charities where your money will do the most good
Date
November 29, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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November 2021
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Vox: Why the future of animal welfare lies beyond the West
Date
November 26, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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November 2021
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Inside Philanthropy: With More Donors, Open Philanthropy Is Spinning Its Criminal Justice Reform Work Into a New Fund
Date
November 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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October 2021
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The Ezra Klein Show, The New York Times: Warning: This Episode Gets Really Weird About How Much Good You Can Do
Date
October 28, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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October 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Date
October 05, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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September 2021
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EE Times: Building a Framework to Trust AI
Date
September 24, 2021
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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August 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
Date
August 26, 2021
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August 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
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August 19, 2021
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
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July 2021
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80,000 Hours Podcast: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
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July 12, 2021
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
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June 2021
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Reuters: Caged animal farming must end in EU, European Commission says
Date
June 30, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2021
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The Washington Post: As grocery prices rise, alt-meat takes a bigger bite of Big Meat’s burger
Date
June 08, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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May 2021
Title
The New York Times: Biden Aims to Rebuild and Expand Legal Immigration
Date
May 31, 2021
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
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May 2021
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PBS News Hour: In her bid to end TB, Mireille Kamariza is shattering stereotypes about scientists
Date
May 10, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2021
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The New York Times: The Future of Virus Tracking Can Be Found on This College Campus
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May 05, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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May 2021
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The New Republic: The Progressive Trio Shaping Biden’s Ambitious Economic Policy
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May 04, 2021
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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April 2021
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The Washington Post: Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing ire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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April 2021
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Financial Times: Air pollution: Asia’s deadliest public health crisis is not Covid
Date
April 27, 2021
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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April 2021
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The Brussels Times: European Citizens’ initiative to end the use of cages in animal farming in EU on the right track
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April 18, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
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March 2021
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Forbes: French Birds, Spanish Cows, Danish Minks: The Fight For Animals’ Rights In Europe
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March 19, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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March 2021
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The Washington Post: Money can’t buy criminal justice reform. But it can fuel a movement.
Date
March 16, 2021
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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March 2021
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The New York Times: Unlocking the Covid Code
Date
March 12, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2021
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Vox: The next frontier for animal welfare: fish
Date
March 02, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2021
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80,000 Hours: Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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February 2021
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The New York Times: Scientists Are Trying to Spot New Viruses Before They Cause Pandemics
Date
February 15, 2021
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2020
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The New York Times: Who Gets to Breathe Clean Air in New Delhi?
Date
December 17, 2020
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
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December 2020
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Comstock’s Magazine: Promise for New Proteins
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December 14, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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December 2020
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The New York Times: California’s Housing Crisis: How a Bureaucrat Pushed to Build
Date
December 13, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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November 2020
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Nature: Coronavirus Testing Finally Gathers Speed
Date
November 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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November 2020
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BioSpace: Icosavax Turns VLP Tech to COVID-19 Vaccine, with $16.5 Million in New Financing
Date
November 02, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Nikkei Asia: Thai Food Producers Shift Focus to Animal Welfare
Date
October 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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October 2020
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Vox: The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity
Date
October 15, 2020
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
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October 2020
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Scientific American: Lab-Made ‘Miniproteins’ Could Block the Coronavirus from Infecting Cells
Date
October 12, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2020
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Stanford Medicine News Center: Jeffrey Glenn Granted $14.3 Million to Develop Broad Spectrum Drug
Date
October 05, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2020
Title
Vox: Building housing — lots of it — will lay the foundation for a new future
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
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September 2020
Title
The Washington Post: The Rise of the Rational Do-Gooders
Date
September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
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September 2020
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Vox: Farms have bred chickens so large that they’re in constant pain
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September 23, 2020
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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September 2020
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Forbes: 2021 Breakthrough Prize Winners Announced: Researcher Who Developed Protein Design Technology Awarded $3 Million
Date
September 10, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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August 2020
Title
The Atlantic: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
Date
August 14, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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July 2020
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Philanthropy Now podcast: Open Philanthropy: How donors and philanthropists can support criminal justice reform
Date
July 22, 2020
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
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July 2020
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San Fransisco Business Times: Biotech Legends Help Launch Parasite-Fighting Startup with Deep Stanford Ties
Date
July 13, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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July 2020
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Forbes: A New 20-Minute Covid-19 Test Will Use CRISPR Gene Editing Technology To Deliver Results At The Doctor’s Office, Supermarket, Or Workplace
Date
July 01, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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March 2020
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Barron’s Penta: How Philanthropists are Tackling COVID-19
Date
March 18, 2020
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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December 2019
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Vox: A US charity just did something radical: asked recipients where the money should go
Date
December 20, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
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October 2019
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EicOsis Press Release: EicOsis receives $15MM grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to help fund trials of non-opioid pain therapy
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October 15, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2019
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Cancer Vaccine Developers Report Bumper Crop of New Cancer Antigens
Date
October 02, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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October 2019
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Nature Biotechnology, First Rounders Podcast: Pardis Sabeti
Date
October 02, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2019
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Engineers Without Borders USA: Creating Cold: The Chilling Challenge of Off-Grid Refrigeration for Developing Countries
Date
September 25, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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September 2019
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Nature: First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
Date
September 05, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
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August 2019
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The Guardian: Campaigners demand end to fish tethering ‘torture’ in Taiwan
Date
August 19, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
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June 2019
Title
The New York Times: Trump Isn’t Alone. These Millennials on the Left Want Low Interest Rates, Too
Date
June 12, 2019
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
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June 2019
Title
Vox: This charity just canceled one of its poverty programs. That’s a good thing.
Date
June 07, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
April 2019
Title
The Sacramento Bee: The answer to opioid crisis? UC Davis researcher will soon test his non-addictive pain drug
Date
April 15, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
April 2019
Title
The New York Times: Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’
Date
April 01, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
March 2019
Title
Forbes: With Launch Of New CRISPR Company, Competition Extends To Diagnostics
Date
March 21, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
February 2019
Title
The Washington Post: Georgetown launches think tank on security and emerging technology
Date
February 28, 2019
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Content Type
February 2019
Title
Vox: GiveWell expands cost-effective giving focus to include policy interventions
Date
February 26, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
February 2019
Title
Nature: Faster, better, cheaper: the rise of CRISPR in disease detection
Date
February 19, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
January 2019
Title
Vox: Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not people’s plates.
Date
January 29, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
January 2019
Title
The Economist: How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat
Date
January 19, 2019
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Content Type
January 2019
Title
STAT: ‘Taste of the future’: New microscopy technique captures stunning images of a fly’s brain
Date
January 17, 2019
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
January 2019
Title
NPR: Why This Charity Isn’t Afraid To Say It Failed
Date
January 07, 2019
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
December 2018
Title
Vox: How to do good better
Date
December 14, 2018
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Content Type
December 2018
Title
The New York Times: Forget Trinkets. These Gifts Change Lives.
Date
December 01, 2018
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Content Type
November 2018
Title
The Economist: The promise and peril of gene drives
Date
November 08, 2018
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2018
Title
Discover Magazine: Meet the Biochemist Engineering Proteins From Scratch
Date
October 29, 2018
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Content Type
October 2018