Watching some videos from a meeting that took place in DC as a collaboration of the NSF and MIT Press. The  comprehensive report  (PDF) is t...

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...

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...

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...

Here are some things that I might want to use in the future. The scientific method.   And these 11 items - Rules of a Scientist...

I am putting together some thoughts concerning some posts that I read several months back. A quiet culture war in research libraries – and...

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...

I first knew Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley through his writings on the Useful Chemistry Blog ; he wrote quite a bit about Open Notebook Science.  ...

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...

Sent this to a colleague, and thought I would blog it so that I could easily get back to these later on. ---------------------------- Are ...