Frontier Development Lab (FDL): AI technologies to space science - 3 views
Applications might be of interest to some: https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/blog/2019/3/1/application-deadline-extended-cftt4?fbclid=IwAR0gqMsHJCJx5DeoObv0GSESaP6VGjNKnHCPfmzKuvhFLDpkLSrcaCwmY_c ...
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? | Sci... - 2 views
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"Publishing industry exerts too much influence over what scientists choose to study, which is ultimately bad for science itself"
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On a related topic - a nice read written in 1939 from Abraham Flexner the founder of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, home of some great minds on the "Usefulness of Useless Knowledge". Enjoy https://library.ias.edu/files/UsefulnessHarpers.pdf
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This article is fantastic - starts already well with : "r IT not a curious fact that in a world steeped in irrational hatreds which threaten civilization itself, men and women-old and young-detach them-selves wholly or partly from the angry current of daily life to devote themselves to the cultivation ofbeauty, to the exten-sion ofknowledge, to the cure ofdisease, to the amelioration of suffering, just as though fanatics were not simultaneously engaged in spreading pain, ugliness, and suffering?" Could almost be written now
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