Ponderings

Jan 19, 2023 11:48

"At a lonely border post high on the Himalayan frontier, Ramaswamy Balasubramanian peered through his binoculars at the People’s Liberation Army soldiers stationed in Tibet-who were peering through their scopes back at him. Tensions between India and China had been high for several years since 1962, when the two countries traded shots across their ( Read more... )

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ertai January 19 2023, 22:55:55 UTC

If you are saying research papers, are you talking about journals. Most of that wouldn't be IP/trade secrets?

And those articles have tons of value to the researchers.

The problem is it's way too expensive to conduct any sort of research, hence you need a funding system. Long gone are the days that I can have a cutting edge lab in my basement.

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aesam January 20 2023, 14:43:12 UTC

I use SciHub to get papers. I'm not going to use them illegally, since I'm not a neuroscience researcher myself. It seemed interesting, that's all.

I hope your dreams for a cutting edge lab in the basement will come true someday. All I want was access to the hazardous chemicals in the locked room in my school's chemistry lab.

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btripp January 20 2023, 04:57:41 UTC

I, too, wish to become an omnipotent polymath!

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aesam January 20 2023, 14:44:01 UTC

I look up to you btripp! We'll reach that goal!

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