“the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against the long-running digital archive, upholding an earlier ruling in Hachette v. Internet Archive that found that one of the Internet Archive’s book digitization projects violated copyright law.”
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case wired.com
I tried to explain this t-shirt to my ten year old niece and she looked at me so pityingly, as if she thought i was suffering a major mental impairment.
Zuckerberg is clearly preparing for a Trump Presidency:
Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke - The Verge
“The lost Library of Alexandria could have fit onto the microSD card in my Nintendo Switch, and yet the cutting edge of technology is a handheld telephone that spews lies as a fun little bonus feature.”
Over the last five years the average open access article processing charge has gone up by 26% to AUD $4,945.
#research #openaccess
A sewage crisis in San Diego County reveals the unpolluted truth about the U.S.-Mexico border
Parts of NAFTA anticipated this dynamic; the agreement included a provision to set aside $100 million a year for environmental infrastructure along the border. As time went on, though, Congress lost its appetite for funding public health upgrades in Mexican cities. How about building a wall and making Mexico pay for it?
That’s the kind of solution that appeals to the American political psyche, but it suffers from a basic misunderstanding. You can draw the border as a line on a map, but you still have to deal with the world on the other side. A sewage crisis in Mexico can’t be solved with pipes in California any more than a migration crisis that spans the hemisphere can be solved with a wall across Texas and Arizona.
Shisha No Thanks! Five Years of Progress
Slides from a presentation to the Unpacking Vaping Cessation Special Interest Group.
More about the project at Shisha No Thanks and the Raising awareness of the harms of waterpipe smoking: Five years of progress report.
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Deterritorialising a sport out of existence after one time in the Olympics is God-tier critical studies 🎓🫡
On the huge achievement that malaria vaccines represent
The vaccines — the first to target any human parasite — represent a feat of both scientific grit and fundraising ingenuity. Researchers took on a sophisticated biological adversary that eludes our immune systems’ schemes to identify and dispatch it. They also had to find ways to nudge forward products that would never result in blockbuster sales, a reality that sapped much of the biopharma industry’s interest.
Behind the malaria vaccines: A 40-year quest against one of humanity’s biggest killers
Return to office directives should be predicated on everyone having an office of their own. Forcing staff to hotdesk out of a backpack using lockers that are emptied every day, without even a desk of their own, isn’t an “office”.