On average, startup founders from the United Kingdom are giving themselves higher salaries — around £15k more than their European counterparts. Reshma Sohoni posits this is because of two things: London’s higher cost of living and the average UK founder’s background. Most UK startups are concentrated around London, which is more expensive to live in. Aside from that, UK founders may think they deserve a higher salary because many of them come from business backgrounds with bigger compensations. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
