Quantum Chess, Hawking Versus Rudd, For the Fate of Humanity
A quantum chess death match between Stephen Hawking and actor Paul Rudd. Did I mention the fate of humanity hangs in the balance?
A quantum chess death match between Stephen Hawking and actor Paul Rudd. Did I mention the fate of humanity hangs in the balance?
Do we need more metrics, or can some questions be answered more easily?
Historians can and do play a vital role in the public humanities, but there are vital reasons not just why but how we write for one another, too.
The Open Syllabus Project has created a database of over 1 million college syllabuses and extracted the names of the materials used in these courses. These materials are analyzed quantitatively and ranked. The creators of the service propose a new metric for the evaluation of academic publications.
An interview with Charles Watkinson, Mike Row, and Mark Edington of the newly-announced Lever Press open access book initiative.
If you tried to make a book from scratch, how would you do it?
January seems like the perfect time to look forward and think about what we might expect to see this coming year. This month we asked the Chefs what they think is on the horizon for 2016.
One of the unanticipated consequences of the introduction of digital media to scholarly publishing is that publishing properties increasingly are organized into networks, with one property pointing to another for the benefit of all. This essay describes the network publishing model and comments on some of a network’s characteristics and economic opportunities.
The New York Public Library has now opened up hundreds of thousands of their digitized public-domain documents to unrestricted access and reuse, encouraging members the general public to exercise all the rights in those documents that the law gives them. Why aren’t more academic libraries doing the same thing?
A short film on the need for accurate statistical analysis and data availability.
After years of tightening its submissions policy, papers contributed by NAS members start resembling direct submissions.
The hidden costs of data availability policies.
Charlie Rapple wonders if controversial browser plug-in Just Not Sorry might have some useful tech behind its current gender-baiting application.
Why do publishers and platform providers spend so little time seeking incremental improvements?
Victoria Belmont talks about what happens when something you do online is taken out of context and becomes part of the internet’s permanent memory.