My thoughts on librarianship, open access, computing, and other stuff.
Monday, May 18, 2020
What the "future" brings us today, yesterday
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I like this little video of the future imagined in 1967, especially the part where the son speeds up audio recording 102 since he had alread...
Friday, August 9, 2019
Time and the heat death of the universe
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I've been trying to wrap my brain around something for the last couple of months. I watched a video that explains what might happen as t...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Educational technology of the future
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When I was a kid, my parents had this book, 1975: And the Changes to Come . I was fascinated by some of the pictures, and what people in the...
Friday, August 5, 2016
Some things for science education
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Here are some things that I might want to use in the future. The scientific method. And these 11 items - Rules of a Scientist'...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Venting some frustration with the slow pace of change in scholarly communication
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I am putting together some thoughts concerning some posts that I read several months back. A quiet culture war in research libraries – and...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Pretend that you are a librarian in the year 2025
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A lot of the essay below is wishful thinking, but some of it might come to pass. Just as there are a lot of physicists who ignore the journ...
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Remembering Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley
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I first knew Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley through his writings on the Useful Chemistry Blog ; he wrote quite a bit about Open Notebook Science. ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013
The ACS and their prior publication policy for preprints #openaccess
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I recently had an email conversation with someone from the ACS over some of their policies. In particular, I noted their policy of not publ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Some Mathematics Resources for Librarians
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Sent this to a colleague, and thought I would blog it so that I could easily get back to these later on. ---------------------------- Are ...
Monday, July 15, 2013
It should be "information wants to be valued"--not that information wants to be free
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I've been thinking of the " information wants to be free " phrase lately. I am not sure that that is quite right. Most peopl...
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