Category Archives: Open Science

El Naschie works on entanglement now

Posted on April 24, 2013 by sflammia

The Journal of Quantum Information Science will not be getting any of my papers starting today, because today is when I learned that they recently published the following gem: A Resolution of Cosmic Dark Energy via a Quantum Entanglement Relativity Theory, by … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny Ha Ha, Open Science, Physics Bastardizations, Quantum Basterdizations, Scientific Publishing | 10 Comments

Funding boost for the arXiv

Posted on August 28, 2012 by sflammia

This is fantastic news: starting this January, the Simons Foundation will provide the Cornell University Library with up to US $300k per year (for the next five years) of matching funds to help ensure the continued sustainability of arXiv.org. The funds are … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Economics, Open Science, Scientific Publishing | 4 Comments

Quantitative journalism with open data

Posted on March 26, 2012 by sflammia

This is the best news article I’ve seen in a while: It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Science, Science By Press Release, Society, Statistics | 8 Comments

A Federal Mandate for Open Science

Posted on February 9, 2012 by sflammia

Witness the birth of the Federal Research Public Access Act: “The Federal Research Public Access Act will encourage broader collaboration among scholars in the scientific community by permitting widespread dissemination of research findings.  Promoting greater collaboration will inevitably lead to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Science, Politics, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing, Society | 2 Comments

Why boycott Elsevier?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by aram

Everyone has their own reasons for doing this. There is an interesting debate at Gower’s blog, including a response from an Elsevier employee. Some people dislike Elsevier’s high prices, their bundling practices, their fake medical journals, their parent company’s (now-former) … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Science, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing | 19 Comments

The cost of knowledge

Posted on January 23, 2012 by sflammia

Tim Gowers has put up a new pledge website against Elsevier. For many years, academics have protested against the business practices of Elsevier. If you would like to declare publicly that you will not support any Elsevier journal unless they radically … Continue reading →

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strike!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by aram

In a move that will undoubtedly bring the US Senate to its knees, the Quantum Pontiff is going dark from 8am to 8pm EST on Jan 18 to protest SOPA, PIPA, the Research Works Act and other proposed acts of … Continue reading →

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Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org?

Posted on January 1, 2012 by aram

They haven’t yet, but they are supporting SOPA, a bill that attempts to roll back Web 2.0 by making it easy to shut down entire sites like wikipedia and craigslist if they contain any user-submitted infringing material. (Here is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Computers, Economics, Open Science, Politics, Scientific Publishing | 9 Comments

Open Science and the Quantumista Condensate

Posted on December 8, 2011 by sflammia

A rare event occurred today here in Seattle. And I’m not just talking about the 20 minutes of partly sunny skies we got at lunchtime. No, this was something rarer still: a quantumista condensate. What precipitated this joint gathering of … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Science, Quantum Computing | 2 Comments

Why medicine needs scirate.com

Posted on September 13, 2011 by aram

Defenders of the traditional publishing model for medicine say that health-related claims need to be vetted by a referee process. But there are heavy costs. In quantum information, one might know the proof of a theorem (e.g. the Quantum Reverse … Continue reading →

Posted in Biology, Health, Open Science, Science, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing, scirate | 10 Comments