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[Link] A Decades-Old Moon Mystery May Be Tied to an Ancient Impact
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
When you gaze up at the Moon from Earth, you are always looking at its near side, with those familiar dark patches, known as maria, that have inspired countless stories over the centuries.
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[Link] Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The public image of palaeontologists as dusty, but rather affable academics, could be due an update.
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[Link] Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement.
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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] A Fascinating Plot Twist As Researchers Recreate Classic “Primordial Soup” Experiment
Read: 31/10/2021 hackaday.com
Science is built on reproducibility; if someone else can replicate your results, chances are pretty good that you’re looking at the truth. And there’s no statute of limitations on reproducibility; even experiments from 70 years ago are fair game for a fresh look.
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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] Einstein was ‘wrong’, not your science teacher
Read: 15/8/2021 theconversation.com
“Your teacher was wrong!” It’s a phrase many a high school or university student has heard. As practising and former science teachers, we have been challenged with this accusation before.
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[Link] Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive
Read: 9/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has launched a donation drive to ensure the operations and development of the popular academic research platform.
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[Link] Why Do Animals Sometimes Kill Their Babies?
Read: 28/6/2021 www.nationalgeographic.com
When Khali, a sloth bear at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., went into labor in late December last year, her keepers were thrilled. But soon after Khali delivered her first cub, something went wrong.
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