Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Seoul-born Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, a professor at Brown University known for her work on fake news, is moving to Canada. So is Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a Harvard chemistry professor working on quantum computing and artificial intelligence. They are among 24 top academic minds around the world wooed to Canada by an aggressive recruitment effort offering ultra-attractive sinecures, seven-year funding arrangements -- and, Chun and Aspuru-Guzik said in separate interviews with Axios, a different political environment from the U.S. The "Canada 150 Research Chairs Program" is spending $117 million on seven-year grants of either $350,000 a year or $1 million a year. It's part of a campaign by numerous countries to attract scholars unhappy with Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and other political trends, sweetened with unusually generous research conditions.

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Canada to the US: Knowledge is power.

[Anonymous Coward]

And as the Know Nothings party, now called Republicans, destroy your education systems and industry, we thank them greatly for making more room for us.

PS.
The world is laughing at you. Respond, angry I bet! Have at it, tell me how MAGA worked and 'merika is the greatest country in the whole USA! Come on, we all want to see your logical, thought out arguments...

Re:Funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Recall that despite Clinton's scandals with Monica, he left the country with a surplus rather than a deficit, and Dubya spent it all on wars and tax cuts that evaporated the surplus. Afghanistan made sense, Iraq was a draining cluster fk coupled with a tax cut.