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Publishing: The peer-review scamnature.com
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes. -
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Moondust and Duct Tape - NASA Sciencescience.nasa.gov
Going to the Moon? Don't forget your duct tape. Thirty-six years ago when Apollo 17 Astronautsfound themselves a quarter million miles from home with a damaged moonbuggy, a roll of "good old fashioned American gray tape" saved the day. -
Keeping Terminal Bar, and a Grittier New York City, Alive in History’s Memorynytimes.com
Sheldon Nadelman took 2,600 photos from 1972 to 1982 when he was a bartender across Eighth Avenue from the Port Authority Bus Terminal. -
Female termites found to clone themselves via asexual reproductionphys.org
(Phys.org) —A pair of researches with Kyoto University has found how the queen of one species of termite, Reticulitermes speratus, ensures her genetic lineage continues by creating duplicate copies of herself. In their paper published in Proceedings of... -
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War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita by Wendy Donigernybooks.com
How did Indian tradition transform the Bhagavad Gita into a bible for pacifism, when it began life as an epic argument persuading a warrior to engage in a battle, indeed, a particularly brutal, lawless, internecine war? - tachyon-project.org
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Tracing bare-metal systems: a multi-core story — LTTnglttng.org
LTTng is an open source tracing framework for Linux. Gain insight into your system's behavior today. -
Servant – We Monetize Our Documentationblog.servant.co
An example of how Servant's cloud database enables many applications and websites to make money simply by putting data to use.... -
‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Should Apply Worldwide, E.U. Panel Saysnytimes.com
New guidelines from privacy regulators would require Google, in certain cases, to take down links in search domains in Europe as well as outside the region. -
Top male engineers at Google make nearly 20% more than their female peerswashingtonpost.com
Research from Glassdoor provides a detailed look at the gender pay gap in Silicon Valley. - plouc.github.io
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Is the NYPD About to Start Ticketing More Cyclists Due to a Mathematical Error?iquantny.tumblr.com
Is the NYPD About to Start Ticketing More Cyclists Due to a Mathematical Error? If there is one thing I can get behind, it is using data to make better policy decisions here in NYC. So when I saw the...