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[Link] I Have 233 Diaries, Which I’ve Kept Since 1993
Read: 5/5/2022 humanparts.medium.com
Last month, I published a book about my many, many diaries. The book (which is a graphic memoir called Dear Sophie, Love Sophie; and which you can and should buy) employed a practice of writing back from the present to past versions of myself, as was recorded in my old journals.
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[Link] Man Experiences ‘Scrotal Necrosis’ After Cobra Bites His Balls
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The 47-year-old patient was on vacation in South Africa at a wildlife reserve when the cobra surprised him from below.
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[Link] Malamud’s General Index: Research Gist, No Slap On The Wrist
Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com
Tired of that unsettling feeling you get from looking for paywalled papers on that one site that shall not be named? Yeah, us too. But now there’s an alternative that should feel a little less illegal: this new index of the world’s research papers over on the Internet Archive.
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[Link] Separating Ideas From Words
Read: 6/11/2021 hackaday.com
We covered Malamud’s General Index this week, and Mike and I were talking about it on the podcast as well. It’s the boldest attempt we’ve seen so far to open up scientific knowledge for everyone, and not just the wealthiest companies and institutions.
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[Link] Get Reading: This Is How Books Can Impact Your Mental Health
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
We’ve long known that we can find comfort, solace and help in the pages of a book, and now research has confirmed that reading can be good for our mental health.
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[Link] Archivists Create a Searchable Index of 107 Million Science Articles
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The General Index is here to serve as your map to all human knowledge. Pulled from 107,233,728 journal articles, The General Index is a searchable collection of keywords and short sentences from published papers that can serve as a map to the paywalled domains of scientific knowledge.
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[Link] Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Eight members of the editorial board of a scientific journal have resigned after it published a slew of controversial papers that critics fear could be used for DNA profiling and persecution of ethnic minorities in China.
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