What I Read This Week...

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Grade inflation in ivy league schools, a new FDA approved sickle cell treatment, and a slow EV charging rollout...

Watch All-In E156 Read my Global Energy Transition Deep-Dive Caught my eye… Nearly 80% of all grades given to undergraduates at Yale last academic year were A’s or A-minuses, up from 67% in the 2010-2011 academic year, prompting concerns that higher grades are becoming less valuable. This isn’t unique to Yale - at Harvard, 79% of all grades given to undergraduates in the 2020-21 year were also A’s or A-minuses, up from just 60% a decade earlier. The FDA approved two milestone cell-based gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease, a rare life-threatening blood disorder caused by…

What I Read This Week...

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