Michael Nielsen was a Fulbright Scholar who got his Ph.D. in Physics at 24. He was already tenured when he decided just three years later to shift his attention to helping democratize Science. He's published three books, most recently Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Currently, he's a Research Fellow at YC Research in San Francisco. Michael's a friend of mine, so I was happy to discover a new article by him in The Atlantic, authored with Patrick Collison, the CEO of Stripe. I decided to ask him why they'd done the research they describe, and what it meant. –Karl
