Yoda: Death to Elsevier & Thomson Reuters — Academic Information Breaks Free…

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 …

Yoda: Solar-Powered Camel Clinics

Solar-Powered Camel Clinics Carry Medicine Across the Desert..portable PV systems are used to power small Eco-friendly refrigeration units for medicine that must be kept cold…this idea could be applied to all mobile clinics…a wonderful application!! Tip of the Hat to Venkatraman Venkitachalam and Parag Mankeekar at LinkedIn.  

Yoda: New Quantum Equation – Circular Time, No Big Bang?

Supports Mayan concept of circular time; discovered in parallel by two separate physicists. New Quantum Equation Suggests The Big Bang Never Happened And Our Universe Has No Beginning Dr. Ahmed Farag Ali and Professor Saurya Das have come up with a series of equations that suggest there is no beginning or end.

Yoda: Death of Elsevier & Thomson Reuters…

This student put 50 million stolen research articles online. And they’re free. Alexandra Elbakyan is a highbrow pirate in hiding. The 27-year-old graduate student from Kazakhstan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. . . . . . “While we …