Paper: Social Structure and Language Structure: the New Nomothetic Approach

Social Structure and Language Structure the New Nomothetic Approach found via Gene Expression, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/01/a-correlation-between-acacia-trees-and-tonal-languages/ Recent studies have taken advantage of newly available, large-scale, cross-linguistic data and new statistical techniques to…

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Polymaths, freedom of information, and copyright – why we need copyright reform to more effectively increase the number of polymaths

I forgot to mention that i hav riten a post about polymathy and copyriet reform over at Project Polymath. Reposted below. Direct link to post. ---- Introduction Polymaths are people…

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Paper: The impact of genetic enhancement on equality (Michael H. Shapiro)

The impact of genetic enhancement on equality found via another paper: The rhetoric and reality of gap closing—when the “have-nots” gain but the “haves” gain even more (Stephen J. Ceci and…

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Why Open Access is a moral imperative

i hav riten about it befor, but here is som mor i came acros. Found via: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/03040821712/scientist-explains-why-putting-research-behind-paywall-is-immoral.shtml For general public: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-paywall-immoral http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417576&c=1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research Background material for the curious: Blog series:…

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