Stephen E. Arnold: Creative Commons Free Image Search

Creative Commons Eludes Copyright With Free Image Search The brand new Creative Commons search engine is something the Internet has waited for: The Creative Commons search engine gives you access to over nine million images drawn from 500px, Flickr, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the Rijksmuseum. You can search …

Jon Rappoport: Trump seeks to slash $6 billion from gov’t medical research: why not more?

Trump seeks to slash $6 billion from gov’t medical research: why not more? The US National Institutes of Health (NIH), a federal agency, is the largest medical research institution in the world. Its 2010 budget was $30 billion. It employs 20,000 people. Trump wants to cut $6 billion from its budget. Here’s what you need …

DefDog: Judge Andrew Napolitano on Warrantless Search & Seizure (and Blackmail and Political Assassination) by US Secret Intelligence Community

Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is a contributor to The Washington Times. He is the author of seven books on the U.S. Constitution. The spooks have come home to roost Americans have traded away their privacy for safety We have enabled a deep state to become powerful …

Stephen E. Arnold: Search, Intelligence, and the Nobel Peace Prize — the Case of Former Spy Robert David Steele

Search, Intelligence, and the Nobel Peace Prize For me, intelligence requires search. Professional operatives rely on search and retrieval technology. The name of the function is changed because keywords are no longer capable of making one’s heart beat more rapidly. Call search text analytics, cognitive insight, or something similar, and search generates excitement. I thought …

Ty Simpson: 85% of Research Wasted – Fix?

An International Team of Experts Just Released A “Manifesto” on How to Fix Science Experts have published a “manifesto” on how to improve science research in four areas: methods, reporting and dissemination, reproducibility, and evaluation and incentives. With research showing that many published scientific papers fail to move science forward, this manifesto provides a much-needed …