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Joseph Esposito argues in the scholarly kitchen why it's okay for OA articles (which come with a CC-BY license) to be repackaged and then sold for a price by other merchants once they're out in a paper. If we can chase the idealists, ideologues, and moralists
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By Anuj Srivas and Vasudevan Mukunth What’s the deal with everyone getting worried about artificial intelligence? It’s all the Silicon Valley elite seem willing to be apprehensive about, and Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom seems to be the patron saint along with his book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)
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1. China has a growing online market for abducted babies "Girls fetch considerably less than boys, but there is still a market for them. Old social patterns have re-emerged in the market, like the sale of girls into a household where they will be servants until they and the
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In November 2008, Luca Bindi, a curator at the Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, found that the alloy of aluminium and copper called khatyrkite could be a quasicrystal. Bindi couldn't be sure because he didn't have the transmission electron microscope necessary to verify his find,
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The world’s single largest science experiment will restart on March 23 after a two-year break. Scientists and administrators at the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known by its French acronym CERN – have announced the status of the agency’s upgrades on its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its readiness
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The first four fifths of this article are fascinating. It's titled "The future of Mein Kempf in a meme world". Though I've not consumed historically significant events with consistent interest, World War II has been an exception by far. And belonging to the generation
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NASA's massive heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, which will one day ferry humans to deep-space destinations and back, has become notorious for the scale of engineering backing it. In September 2014, agency administrator Charles Bolden had unveiled the world's largest welder to mark the start
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1. For its ignorance of human capital, the 2015 Budget was a step back into the Third World "Oddly, the recent Budget of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) junks these insights and goes back to the days of Jawaharlal Nehru, when growth and development sounded synonymous, physical capital was
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I'm not fond of biology. Of late, however, it's been harder to avoid encountering it because the frontiers of many fields of research are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary. Biological processes are meshing with physics and statistics, and undergoing the kind of epistemic reimagination that geometry experienced in
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There is a new possibility for life on Titan. Scientists affiliated with Cornell University have created a blueprint for a cellular lifeform that wouldn’t need water to survive. Water on Earth has been the principal ingredient of, as well as the catalyst for, the formation of life. The Cornell
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If you grew up reading Harry Potter (or Lord of the Rings, as the case may be), chances are you'd have liked to move to the world of Hogwarts (or Middle Earth), and spent time play-acting scenes in your head as if you were in them. This way
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It's not a good time for peer-review. Sure, if you've been a regular reader of Retraction Watch, it's never been a good time for peer-review. But aside from that, the process has increasingly been taking the brunt for not being able to stem the