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Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The world is neither good nor bad; men are the ultimate root of these ideas
What earthly reason could anyone have for being an optimist unless he had a god to defend who must have created the best of all possible worlds, since he is himself all goodness and perfection?—but what thinking man has now any need for the hypothesis that there is a god?—There…
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Beyond simple assertions and their provenance
The micropublication approach goes beyond statements and their provenance, proposing a richer model in order to account for a more complete and broadly useful view of scientific argument and evidence, beyond that of simple assertions, or assertions supported only by literature…
Osx Dictionary
Kerfuffle
noun [ in sing. ] informal, chiefly Brit. a commotion or fuss, esp. one caused by conflicting views: there was a kerfuffle over the chairmanship. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: perhaps from Scots curfuffle (probably from Scottish Gaelic car ‘twist, bend’ + imitative Scots fuffle ‘to…
Researchers Opt To Limit Uses Of Open-access Publications : Nature News & Comment
Open-access authors still want reuse restrictions
Academics are — slowly — adopting the view that publicly funded research should be made freely available. But data released yesterday suggest that, given the choice, even researchers who publish in open-access journals want to place restrictions on how their papers can be…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Periods are fuzzy but real
As culture evolves gradually, respective characteristics increase and decrease in frequency and strength. This makes the definition of a period necessar ily fuzzy with respect to space- time, but it makes the periods themselves not less real or objective. Rather, spatiotemporal…