Having enjoyed Ender's Game (when I was...10?-ish, with consequent nostalgia), I have also slogged through the remainder of the books Card has written in that setting. This now includes Shadows in Flight, which has apparently been published recently ( Read more... )

Last week, Harvard sent this message to its faculty, stating that they can no longer afford all of their journal subscriptions. The exact language is:

"Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly communication environment fiscally unsustainable and academically restrictive."

Given that Harvard has the largest endowment of any ( Read more... )

Any thoughts on how the two interact and why?

Yes, really.

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I think this is awesome.

Original link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP9RnDp_tms

Hat tip to: http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/crow-goes-snowboarding

SOPA and PROTECT-IP are bad ideas. I've already stated why in a previous post.If you don't believe me, perhaps Google or Wikipedia can convince you ( Read more... )

Since I'm probably going to follow my usual New Year's tradition and go to bed earlier than usual, here are a couple of interesting articles on how Finland handles education. They're getting significantly better results than the United States ( Read more... )

To celebrate/commemorate/note/something appropriate along those lines the US exit from Iraq, I thought I'd share an interview transcript I found about the first year there. It rather seems to explain why it took this long to get back out ( Read more... )

It states that ( Read more... )

The Senate already passed one insanely dangerous bill this week, allowing the indefinite detention of US citizens on our own soil ( Read more... )

Specifically, there is a law that will have some significant effects on the internet, none of them good from my perspective, for a reason I consider stupid ( Read more... )