Weekly read log (8/03/2021-14/03/2021)

• Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe# Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe Interesting takes on science funding and stagnation (see: changing scientific incentives can help overcome stagnation ). There are also several links that are worth following to explore more.
• Thoughts on Mariana Mazzucato's Entrepreneurial State ](https://nintil.com/mazzucato) This is mostly a criticism to the book published in 2015. Essentially, JL Ricón argues that Mazzucato fails at providing sources and data for the argument that innovation would not have happened without the state support. They are convoluted arguments regarding routing of money through banks which may have had a public origin.
• California is making liberals squirm by Ezra Klein. An uber american discussion pointing to how bad things are in the US. Perhaps the wealthiest state in the wealthiest country on earth can't even get shelter for homeless, nor build a train.
• # Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet Short summary on digital garden landscape, citing some of the best known examples in the space.

Papers

• Identification of factors that contribute to recombinant AAV2 particle aggregation and methods to prevent its occurrence during vector purification and formulation [ @wright2005 Identification of factors that contribute to recombinant AAV2 particle aggregation and methods to prevent its occurrence during vector purification and formulation ] (see: AAV2 capsids suffer from aggregation making them unstable and harder to use for medical applications )
• EVQuant ; high-throughput quantification and characterization of extracellular vesicle (sub)populations [ @hartjes2020 EVQuant; high-throughput quantification and characterization of extracellular vesicle (sub)populations ] (see quantifying the concentration of EVs in urine or plasma through confocal microscopy )
• How to Make More Published Research True [ @ioannidis2014 How to Make More Published Research True ] (see How to make more published research true )

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