The National Science Foundation (NSF) today released a long-anticipated policy that will require its grantees to make their peer-reviewed research papers freely available within 12 months of publication in a journal. http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2015/03/nsf-unveils-plan-make-scientific-papers-free because you know what…Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.)
Cyber is number one and read this: Most of the public discussion regarding cyber threats has focused on the confidentiality and availability of information […] we might also see more cyber operations that will change or manipulate electronic information in order to compromise its integrity (i.e. accuracy and reliability) instead of deleting it or disrupting …
Biologists have concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random, based on a study of different species of roundworms. The researchers note that even where we might expect evolution to be random, it is not. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071119123929.htm Original study: Kiontke, K., Barrière, A., Kolotuev, I., Podbilewicz, B., Sommer, R., Fitch, D. H. A., …
New article: Engineering the Perfect Baby: Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late? By Antonio Regalado on March 5, 2015 http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/535661/engineering-the-perfect-baby/ …which reminds me I don’t say this enough (maybe?) :: We need more people trained in Bioethics, BIOETHICS, BiOeThIcS, bioethics, bIoEtHiCs, B.I.O.E.T.H.I.C.S. clear enough? So, here …
http://blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/deja-vu/2015/02/26/avec-la-zee-ville-de-facebook-zuckerberg-reinvente-les-corons-234289 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963782/Welcome-Facebook-City-Mark-Zuckerberg-plans-waterside-development-10-000-staff-near-firm-s-San-Francisco-HQ.html Check out this previous post: https://ladam.info/2013/09/12/godin-utopie-familistere-and-architecture/#respond
http://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_radical_wisdom_for_a_company_a_school_a_life?language=en On accumulating money: […] if you’re giving back, you took too much. And some of the other very interesting things: And so we said, look, the retirement, the whole issue of how we distribute our graph of life. Instead of going mountain climbing when you’re 82, why don’t you do it next week? And we’ll do it like …
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The team began experimenting with Morse code using various percussion instruments and a keyboard. They learned that operators skilled in Morse code can often read the signals at a rate of 40 words per minute but played that fast, the beat would sound like a European Dance track. from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/hiding_a_morse_.html Put that way, kinda …
Thousands of people will have their personal files held hostage this year, by software that uses virtually unbreakable encryption. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534516/holding-data-hostage-the-perfect-internet-crime/
ADN, pochoir de Goin (Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr/CC) Vos gènes sont à vendre et ils peuvent rapporter gros (mais pas à vous) http://blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/la-sante-na-pas-de-prix/2015/01/24/vos-genes-sont-vendre-et-ils-peuvent-rapporter-gros-mais-pas-vous-234118 (EN) https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com%2Fla-sante-na-pas-de-prix%2F2015%2F01%2F24%2Fvos-genes-sont-vendre-et-ils-peuvent-rapporter-gros-mais-pas-vous-234118 http://mediacenter.23andme.com/blog/2015/01/06/23andme-genentech-pd/