A cartoon by Christopher Weyant. For more cartoons from the issue: http://nyr.kr/16FOIXo
del-fi: Officially Entering "And Then They Fight" Phase of Open Access
And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
Although the substance of the above quote is usually attributed to Gandhi, there’s no…
Open Access cycles
Beware the Coming War Against Personal Photography and Video
Lauren Weinstein, petapixel.comAre you ready for the imagery war — the war against personal photography and capturing of video? You’d better be.The title of this piece actually isn’t entirely accurate. In some ways, this war isn’t just coming, it’s already begun. Forces are lin…
Fear is a powerful force which often leads us astray… Western societies are now threading a dangerous path and will continue to do so if we don’t change from controlling, masculine and exclusive strategies to female, dialectic and more inclusive approaches.
Elemental rings, some precious metal for your precious digits. I pity the fool that don’t want a little metallic chemistry on their phalanges!
(check ‘em out at ITSNONAME)
So great: Major movements in philosophy, as minimalist geometric graphics.
This happened.
del-fi: Emperor's New Short Tandem Repeats
Yaniv Ehrlich’s lab at MIT has a new paper out in Science today, with a companion policy piece from the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH. Apologies for icky paywalls but these are important papers.
The gist is that a savvy computational scientist can find enough breadcrumbs…
Lessig Blog, v2: A time for silence
A week ago today, Aaron gave up. And since I received the call late Friday night telling me that, like so many others who were close to him, I have not rested. Not slept, really. Not connected with my kids, at all. Not held my wife except to comfort her tears, or for her to comfort mine.
Instead…
Lessig Blog, v2: A time for silence
A week ago today, Aaron gave up. And since I received the call late Friday night telling me that, like so many others who were close to him, I have not rested. Not slept, really. Not connected with my kids, at all. Not held my wife except to comfort her tears, or for her to comfort mine.
Instead…
I know we don’t usually talk about data and data-sharing here, since generally data are not copyrighted in the US, but this is too funny/maddening not to share.
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