The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Kudos to Jane Mayer of the New Yorker for teasing out this provocative story. Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All “The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it. “I put lipstick on a pig,” [Tony Schwartz] said. “I …
Avast: Pirate Libraries They are called “pirate libraries,” but one would be better-served envisioning Robin Hood than Blackbeard. Atlas Obscura takes a look at these floaters of scientific-journal copyrights in, “The Rise of Pirate Libraries.” These are not physical libraries, but virtual ones, where researchers and other curious folks can study articles otherwise accessible only …
Thomson Reuters: Selling at Peak Value? I read “Thomson Reuters Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell its Intellectual Property & Science Business to Onex and Baring Asia for $3.55 billion.” Thomson Reuters has been working hard to pump up revenue and generate a juicy profit for its stakeholders. Like IBM, it seems that the best way …
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NEW SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Trump-So-Black — with a smile, please share. Printable Document at End — May Be Freely Copied in Whole or Part We Are All Black Now, Deal With It! AN OPEN LETTER TO DONALD J. TRUMP Mr. Trump, You announced your presidential bid on June 16, 2015. Since then I have made multiple …
An Open Letter to All European Ministers Esteemed Ministers, On 27 May the Competitiveness Council in Brussels announced a European decision to achieve Open Access to all scientific research data by 2020. This decision, and the implementing European framework programme for research and innovation Horizon 2020, will be recognized by future generations as the first …
Between this and the Goggle vs. Oracle ruling, it was a great week. All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020 All scientific articles in Europe must be freely accessible as of 2020. EU member states want to achieve optimal reuse of research data. They are also looking into a European visa for …
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Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website. John Bohannon, Science, 28 April 2016 To read a 2011 paper in Applied Mathematics and Computation, Rahimi would have to pay the publisher, Elsevier, $28. A 2015 paper in Operations Research, published by the U.S.-based company INFORMS, would cost …
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