The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Access For All Our professors do the research. They write the papers and proofread them. They even do the peer review. Harvard then pays again for the journals—many of them over $10,000 each—and most of us feel personally the bite each term when we buy our sourcebooks. That’s three ways we pay for the same research, writing, proofreading, and peer review. This same issue of access to scholarship hits even harder on people outside of our well-funded elite universities. Change is slow, however, because this situation perpetuates itself. If this situation sounds ridiculous to you, you’re not alone. In 2003, Donald Knuth, a laureate of computer science’s highest honor, the Turing Award, wrote a long letter to his colleagues on the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Algorithms in protest of climbing prices and restrictions on access. Other researchers, in fields from philosophy to biology, have gone further still, setting up new peer-reviewed journals founded on open access. Gregory N.
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other | P Europe's Muslims More Moderate Introduction and Summary After a year marked by riots over cartoon portrayals of Muhammad, a major terrorist attack in London, and continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, most Muslims and Westerners are convinced that relations between them are generally bad these days. Many in the West see Muslims as fanatical, violent, and as lacking tolerance. Meanwhile, Muslims in the Middle East and Asia generally see Westerners as selfish, immoral and greedy – as well as violent and fanatical. A rare point of agreement between Westerners and Muslims is that both believe that Muslim nations should be more economically prosperous than they are today. Nothing highlights the divide between Muslims and the West more clearly than their responses to the uproar this past winter over cartoon depictions of Muhammad. The chasm between Muslims and the West is also seen in judgments about how the other civilization treats women. Other Major Findings Roadmap to the Report
Journal Cost-Effectiveness Search discr+/pauvrt « Lancement de BFM TV | Accueil | Un vrai Noël chez Playmobil » 28 novembre 2005 L'échec de la "discrimination positive" aux Etats-Unis En cautionnant la "discrimination (dite) positive", Nicolas Sarkozy s'inspire implicitement de la pratique américaine. Le principe d'une telle discrimination est intrinsèquement choquant. C'est la triste constatation de Thomas Sowell, un Noir américain en lutte contre les préférences raciales : "Le taux de pauvreté des Noirs avait été divisé par deux avant la mise en place de la discrimination positive [affirmative action] - et n'a pratiquement pas changé depuis." On le vérifie sur cette courbe des taux de pauvreté selon les races : la discrimination positive a été introduite à la fin des années 1960 (en particulier après l'Executive Order n°11246 du président Johnson en 1965). Henri Védas Posté le 28 novembre 2005 à 21h12 par Le Salon Beige Commentaires L'Eglise catholique n'est-elle pas contre la peine de mort ?
JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching Race maps of America By David Gardner Updated: 17:25 GMT, 26 September 2010 These are the maps that show the racial breakdown of America’s biggest cities. Using information from the latest U.S. census results, the maps show the extent to which America has blended together the races in the nation’s 40 largest cities. With one dot equalling 25 people, digital cartographer Eric Fischer then colour-coded them based on race, with whites represented by pink, blacks by blue, Hispanic by orange and Asians by green. The resulting maps may not represent what many might expect Barack Obama’s integrated rainbow nation to look like, as many cities have clear racial dividing lines. Detroit: Red represents White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Gray is Other, and each dot represents 25 people Washington, DC: The east-west divide of the nation's capital can clearly be seen Los Angeles: The city's Hispanic population lives predominantly in the city's poorer areas
Journal of Interactive Online Learning Current Issue "A Learning Journey for All": American Elementary Teachers’ Use of Classroom Wikis Read More... Examining Pictorial Models and Virtual Manipulatives for Third-Grade Fraction Instruction Read More... Aligning Web-based Tools to the Research Process Cycle: A Resource for Collaborative Research Projects Read More... Go to top
The future of scientific publishing? : business|bytes|genes|molecules ruminations on science, data and computing by Deepak Singh If you don’t subscribe to Freelancing Science, you should » At the Scienceblogging conference , my favorite session was one on open science and publishing, led by Hemai Parathasarthy . Much of the discussion focused on the current publishing model and how it is evolving, what works and what doesn’t. Some of the discussion centered around why people published in journals like Nature and Science . From those threads and others, I made the comment that perhaps the future of publishing lies in a world where the role of Nature and Science and their abilities in managing reviewers and editorial staff becomes one of providing opinion and commentary on the best science. I’d like to expand on that thought. Preprint servers will also play a huge role in the future as well (I have started using Nature Precedings quite a bit lately). Update: There is a very relevant post by Jon Udell that people should go read NOW. [...]
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