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SyzygyCon Pre-Reading Materials
Contents:
1. Prizes overview and ideas
2. Journalism overview and ideas
a. Crowdfunding idea in depth
3. Capitalism and LIFG overview ... Moral nature of capitalism in depth
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SyzygyCon Prizes Conversation
Explore creating a uniquely designed prize that leverages our assets to
address an issue that Reid ... cares about, such as entrepreneurship, public
intellectualism, and human ecosystems.
PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES
Whether we're recognizing superior acting performances or the most
significant contributions to economic theory, or attempting
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crediting an account.
(r) "Internet Game" means a scheme, arrangement, or plan comprised of
prize, chance, and consideration or prize, mixed chance and skill, and
consideration that is approved ... must ensure that there is no illicit access possible to player
accounts or unclaimed prize money residing in the system (e.g. funds in
dormant accounts).
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Internet games;
4. the procedures for recording and paying prizes won in
Internet games and maintaining and using players'
accounts, including the procedures for paying
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total applicants:
SR = [number of total applicants ] / [number of winners ]
Example: $100,000 research prizes for book proposals to explore the constructive
engagement between science and religion. (Program managed ... Billy Grassie / PCRS)
Total applicants: —350
Prizes awarded: 7
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SR = 50 = a selectivity of one winner out of fifty applicants.
(This is hyperselective and confers ... were in fact quantitatively tangible.
As an example, consider the book prize program mentioned previously. If successful, this project
will generate one or more highly outstanding books by distinguished thinkers
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other
geniuses working in these white spaces between fields, by offering a series of prizes to
remarkable individuals working in a Media Lab—like style. Media Lab Director ... curators, bringing order to this process without stultifying it. These curators will
award ten prizes; prize winners will distribute half the prize money to five other
individuals working ... otherfoundations and individuals — some of whom have already steppedforward --
to bring some of the prize winners to the lab on a longer-term or even permanent basis as
students, researchers
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other
geniuses working in these white spaces between fields, by offering a series of prizes to
remarkable individuals working in a Media Lab-like style. Media Lab Director ... dunk *vat
keepers"... Maybe r.ckctort 1, e canon, sound: taut.
will award ten prizes; prize winners will distribute half the prize money to five other to h ho
individuals working ... remaining
anonymous, will choose ten Templeton/Media Lab Fellows. Each fellow will receive a
prize of 4100,000, with the stipulation that he or site give away half of this money
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From: Boris Nikolic
Sent: Wed 6/27/2012 5:55:18 PM
Subject: FW: 2013 TED Prize: Looking for a big wish
Title: 2013 TED Prize: Looking for a big wish
Should ... Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:46 AM
To: Boris Nikolic
Subject: 2013 TED Prize: Looking for a big wish
Email not displaying correct- View it in your browser ... Dear TEDster,
Today, we begin to write a whole new chapter for the TED Prize. There are three key shifts:
+ Historically, the TED Prize was awarded to individuals who then
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Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi Are Awarded
Nobel Peace Prize
By ALAN COWELL and DECLAN WALSH: OCT. 10, 2014
Reaching across gulfs of age, gender, faith ... nationality and even international celebrity, the Norwegian
Nobel Committee awarded the 2014 peace prize on Friday to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash
Satyarthi of India. The award joined ... labor and free children from trafficking.
Ms. Yousafzai, 17, the youngest recipient of the prize since it was created in 1901, said Friday in a news
conference in Birmingham, England
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speaker, the visionary Peter Dianmadis,
who is the Founder and Chairman of the X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is simply "to bring
about radical breakthroughsfor the benefit ofhumanity ... offering a big cash prize for a specific
accomplishment, the X Prize stimulates competition and excitement around some of the planet's most important
goals. The X Prize Foundation offers ... large cash incentive prizes to inventors who can solve grand challenges
like space flight, low-cost mobile medical diagnostics and oil spill cleanup. Diamandis is also co-founder and
chairman
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that might
make a big change in my future. It's not only money prizes, but also recognition, contracts for concert tours,
records etc. During next years I need ... name of competion??
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:06 AM, > wrote:
1st Prize USS 30,000 and the Gold Medal
2nd Prize USS 20,000 and the Silver ... Medal
3rd Prize USS 10,000 and the Bronze Medal
4th Prize USS 5,000 and a Diploma
5th Prize USS 3,000 and a Diploma
6th Prize
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that
might make a big change in my future. It's not only money prizes, but also recognition, contracts for
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concert tours, records etc. During next years I need ... name of competion??
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
1st Prize US$ 30,000 and the Gold Medal
2nd Prize US$ 20,000 and the Silver ... Medal
3rd Prize US$ 10,000 and the Bronze Medal
4th Prize US$ 5,000 and a Diploma
5th Prize US$ 3,000 and a Diploma
6th Prize
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From: Eunice Kim
To: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Follow up: 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Ceremony Invitation
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:34:25 +0000
Dear Mr. Epstein,
Thank ... unable to join us but hope to see you during future editions
of the Prize.
Best,
Eunice
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:56 AM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote ... Date: Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:23 PM
Subject: 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize Ceremony Invitation
To: jeevacation@gmail.com,
Dear Mr. Epstein,
On behalf of the Pritzker Family, we kindly request
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Origins Project Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship
The Origins Project at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the inaugural Origins Project Postdoctoral
Prize Lectureship. This prize will be awarded annually ... from all countries, from
any field of study relevant to the Origins Project. The prize consists of a $10,000 USD, and travel and accommoda-
tion expenses. While visiting ... research area.
Nominations will be accepted starting September 2014. The prize is open to junior scholars who were awarded
the PhD no earlier than July
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Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah, for the forthcoming
Nobel Peace Prize for 2018.
I will try to be as concise as I can while touching ... titles and abundant
wealth and are therefore in no need for additional accolades and prizes, this is a
flawed concept that is prejudiced by politics and was never part ... universal values common to all cultures are the things that matter for the
Nobel Prize, such as the contributions by a nominee that have benefited humanity.
In the spirit
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well says he's awesome
***
Dr. Ed Boyden
Will probably win the Nobel Prize for optogenetics. Lots of other
fascinating ideas as well. I don't know him well ... evolution in all its aspects.
Used to do systems biology. Should win the Nobel Prize for his
various work on evolutionary theory, but I think that's quite
unlikely ... world currently....
***
Dr. Ray Kurzweil
of course
***
Peter Diamandis
Creator of the X-Prize. I have met him once, don't know him well.
Very smart, broad-minded, great
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Third Culture Mail List)
Subject: EDGE 137 - Richard Dawkins: "Next Step, A Nobel Prize for Literature"
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:15:17 +0000
April 26, 2004
Edge ... www.edge.org
[1,100 words]
THE THIRD CULTURE
NEXT STEP, A NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE?
Novelists may win the plaudits, but they don't have all the good stories
Richard Dawkins ... CHAPLAIN.
Richard Dawkins's Edge Bio Page
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/dawkins.html
NEXT STEP, A NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE?
In a 1968 book review of THE DOUBLE HELIX, anthologised in PLUTO
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much we get to stick into the box.
I'm fine with prize money, mostly because as you know from Marvin, there's no
way to get funding for "real ... environment for a while and — 1 . be
able to discriminate language from noise. . prize . a 1 dollar bill signed by Noam and 100k.
. 2. be able to discriminate coherent sentences ... from non ( we provide 10 test sentences ).
prize a 10 dollar signed Chomsky bill , and 500k. 3. a language learning module. 20 dollar bill
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person, and it is therefore you, as winner, who will receive the prize money of 400,000 euros.
Our Foundation must also comply with the legal requirement to inform ... award
winner, providing your name, tax address and the economic amount of the prize. To this end, we will need the details
requested in our e-mail of January ... countries.
The above notwithstanding, the BBVA Foundation will be happy to pay the prize money or, as you intend, part of the same
to any organization you stipulate, providing
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