Tax payers here and elsewhere are being gipped by publishers who claim copyrights to the scientific literature. As an example, this article in Cell was supported by several grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01 AG034504, R01 AG030146, P30 AG10161, R01 AG17917, R01 AG15819, K08 AG034290,[...]
Posts Tagged ‘privitization’
February 3rd, 2014 - 3:12 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Stocks unravel after factory report; Dow sinks 300-plus points
Put another way, without government creating money via the Federal Reserve and creating opportunities via investments in our infrastructure and long term research, the equity in the stock market will poof GOVERNMENT DOES MAKE MONEY Since the American Revolution, the HUGE success of America and the u[...]
January 27th, 2014 - 4:30 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
UPDATE: A Response to OpEds on GWU
Public-University Group Offers Alternative to Obama’s College-Rating Plan This article in The Chronicle raises the very important issue of standards. Sadly, while this debate is being focused n universities tha[...]
January 1st, 2014 - 2:49 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
New Idea for a New Year …. Husky U!
Lets Build Husky U in 2014 .. We Already Have The Stadium! In 2012 we ran a post about better ways to fund the UW. Joy the world … the UW’s new 1/4 billion dollar football stadium (added to the 1 billion Seattle spent for Seahawks Stadium) may show us the way! Husky fans claim that [...]
December 16th, 2013 - 12:49 am § in Misc.
Harvard Makes Me Proud
Harvard’s Three Things: An Origin Story Laid Bare By Annie C. Harvieux and Colton A. Valentine Today, it is said that there are three things every Harvard student must do before graduating: pee on the John Harvard statue, run in Primal Scream, and have s[...]
December 12th, 2013 - 11:23 pm § in Misc.
Nobel Laureate Denounces Premier Journals …
Randy Schekman refers to these journals as “luxury” journals. I think a more apt term is” science tabloids.” Recently, TA has written about the problem of scientific publishers appropriating copyrights to themselves . especially on materials funded by our government. The [...]
December 8th, 2013 - 11:34 am § in Schools & Colleges
While the UW Worries About TA’s Logo, Elsevier Claims Rights to Everything Published in Their Journals
Elsevier is making an effort to shut down Academia.edu. The Academia site is an attempt to allow researchers share their scientific papers freely. Elsevier, of course, makes no original contributions ot Science but has, nuanced thoughts on access to the research. It’s issued requests for thous[...]
BREAKING NEWS:The Democrats and Teachers Union Push Court to Rule For Class Based Schools
The AP reports that a King County Superior Court judge is scheduled to hear oral arguments today over the constitutionality of Washington’s new charter school law. The case is being brought by the teachers unions acting with “coalition of parents, educators and community groups.” W[...]
Roger Rabbit Our Bunny Attorney Comments on Interns
Here’s Corporate America’s new employment offer: Jobs that pay nothing. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101199651 Roger Rabbit Commentary: The reason people are willing to do this, of course, is because blank spots on their resumes look really, really bad. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101204809 So, with pa[...]
Another Western Governor Message
This came in as a comment on a previous WGU post. “Simple research would prevent false allegations.” The author comments: I don’t even know where to start. Lets first start with the faculty that you mention numerous times in your attack on WGU. WGU hires course mentors that serve[...]