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Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences goes Open Access

Posted on Feb 14th, 2008 by Peter : explosions in the sky Peter
Another big boost for open access reporting from Ars Technica:

...Harvard University has started to throw its weight behind the spread of Open Access publishing. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to require faculty to make copies of their research freely available through the Office of Scholarly Communications.


One of the great promises of the internet revolution has been the democratization of knowledge. Armed just with a computer and way of connecting to the internet, it is possible to find information on just about any topic known to humankind. In academia, the spread of the digital age has been most effective. Instead of having to spend hours in dusty stacks looking for the right volume of an obscure periodical, a few seconds using PubMed, Google Scholar, or any one of a number of databases will often yield up an electronic copy.

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Bowl of Saki on the Final Victory

Posted on Feb 20th, 2008 by Peter : explosions in the sky Peter
Bowl of Saki snippet from February 19:

"The final victory in the battle of life for every soul is when he has
abandoned, which means when he has risen above, what once he valued
most. For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he
does not understand it
[my italics]. When he has fully understood, the value is
lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing. It is like looking
at the scenery on the stage and taking it for a palace. Such is the
case with all things of the world; they seem important or precious when
we need them or when we do not understand them; as soon as the veil
which keeps man from understanding is lifted, then they are nothing."

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