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OpenScience / Policy
How to make money from Open Source scientific software
One of my graduate students just got offered a job at computational chemistry software company. I have a lot of respect for this company; they make very good, very fast, and very capable products. They also hire real scientists and … Continue reading
The Future of Higher Education
A number of people (including T. Daniel Crawford) have pointed me at an article by William Stuntz in The New Republic called What Summers’s fall says about the future of higher education. Stuntz makes some interesting points, although this statement: … Continue reading
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What is the Value of a Columnist, wallowing in ignorance?
Oy. Here we have Richard Cohen’s most idiotic column: “What Is the Value of Algebra?” in which he argues that basic mathematics is not nearly as important as, say, more classes in English. I’m an advocate of more education of … Continue reading
State of the Union
Over at Chris Mooney’s blog there’s an interesting post about Bush embracing Science in the latest state of the union speech. Since part of our research is on nanotechnology, and we’re insatiable users of supercomputing facilities, I certainly noticed this … Continue reading
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Well, that pretty much says it all
From MSNBC.com, here’s the headline: Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’. And here’s an excerpt from the decision: To be sure, Darwin’s theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every … Continue reading
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Let data speak to data
There’s a wonderful editorial in Nature titled Let data speak to data, which starts the conversation on more open methods of communicating results including: Creative commons licenses for scientific data High impact factors for blogs Centralized monolithic shared databases Go … Continue reading
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The Royal Society lays a big one
What are they thinking? The Royal Society wants to keep science off the web because it might hurt the society journals in some disciplines. Although I might have some sympathy for the plight of society journals, the journals that will … Continue reading
Thoughtful cardinals, ID-iots in the Indiana Legislature
Two news items of some concern to those of us teaching science at Notre Dame: First, some depressing news from the Indy Star: GOP lawmakers want schools to teach ‘intelligent design’. And Hoosiers are off on a race to the … Continue reading
The know-nothings
Salon is running an article by Andrew O’Hehir called The know-nothings. This is a lengthy and expanded review of Chris Mooney’s book “The Republican War on Science,” although it goes into topics not covered in great detail by Mooney. The … Continue reading
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