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A History of Encabulation — Advancements From the Turbo Encabulator and the Retro Encabulator Have Led to the Hyper Encabulator

Significant breakthroughs in jargon have enabled the development of the hyper encabulator, sure to serve all your encabulation needs.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 11, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Adieu to Educopia: An Interview with Katherine Skinner

Read about the history of Educopia and look ahead to its future in today’s interview with co-founder Katherine Skinner, who recently stepped down as their Executive Director

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Oct 26, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 12 mins

New Light on the New OSTP Memo: An Interview with Dr. Alondra Nelson

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson interview Dr. Alondra Nelson, acting director of the White House Office on Science & Technology Policy when the new OSTP memo was published.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 11, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Scientific Journeys: A Physicist Explores the Culture, History and Personalities of Science – A Book Review

Robert Harington reviews Fred Dylla’s book, Scientific Journeys: A Physicist Explores the Culture, History and Personalities of Science, a collection of prose pieces that portray the author’s approach to a world of science and the science of the world.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Aug 4, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

A Time Travel Guide to Ancient Rome

The Scholarly Kitchen has, over the years, offered significant resources for the potential time traveler. Here, a guide to visiting Ancient Rome.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 29, 2022
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

What Universities — and Libraries, Researchers, and Publishers? — Owe Democracy

Universities need democracy, and vice versa. An important book shows the 20th century history of that relationship in the United States, and offers a prescription for what we do now that both are imperiled.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jun 16, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Reverse Engineering, the Cycle of Culture, and the Dark History of White Bread

The story of white bread’s rise and fall offers a lesson in the circular nature of manufacturing and consumer culture.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 10, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

The Ghost of Publishing Past: George Gissing’s “New Grub Street”

A lesson in publishing’s past is provided by George Gissing’s Victorian Era novel.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • May 23, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 2)

An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 18, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

10 Years of Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research: An Interview with the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable (Part 1)

An interview with principals of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, whose work significantly shaped the Holdren Memo on public access to federally-funded research.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 17, 2022
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The End of the iPod

This week marks the end of an era, as the iPod is officially discontinued.

  • By David Crotty
  • May 13, 2022
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Humanities and Graduate Education:  The Crisis is Real, but Not New

A new study offers — surprise — mostly bad news about the state of Humanities graduate education. Even while we know how important humanistic perspectives are for, well, humanity.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 29, 2022
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Unreachable/ Unwritable Histories: Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe

First in a series on histories made difficult or impossible though war or climate disasters, this post features two historians of Russia and Eastern Europe.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 7, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Fraud and Peer Review: An Interview with Melinda Baldwin

Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2022
  • 15 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

“Common Knowledge” and How False Facts Become Entrenched

Some scientific “urban legends” get debunked in today’s video. How does incorrect “common knowledge” become established?

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 18, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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