The US used to be a haven for research. Now, scientists are packing their bags(csmonitor.com)

7 points by the-mitr 1 year ago | 0 comments

‘Peanuts,’ Charles Schulz, and the state that started it all(csmonitor.com)

53 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 21 comments

“The Poet Is a Man Who Feigns”(daily.jstor.org)

30 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 12 comments

Finding Robert Bogucki, the man who disappeared on purpose(abc.net.au)

34 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 20 comments

Rosalind Franklin's Methods of Discovery(daily.jstor.org)

64 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 5 comments

Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer?(science.org)

141 points by andrewl 3 years ago | 348 comments

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)(computerhistory.org)

51 points by mooreds 23 days ago | 30 comments

Computer History Museum exhibit page showing Thomas Watson Jr.'s August 1963 IBM memo about the Control Data CDC 6600 supercomputer.

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.

Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude(theverge.com)

21 points by mikelgan 18 days ago | 17 comments

The Verge report on Anthropic's usage policy update banning abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude and adding rules on propaganda, surveillance, and weapons.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died(pgdp.net)

572 points by ron_k 1 year ago | 86 comments

A Distributed Proofreaders wiki memorial page announcing the death of Dr. Gregory B. Newby, longtime CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears(nature.com)

355 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 243 comments

Nature news article reporting that scientific conferences are relocating or pausing US meetings because foreign researchers fear border and travel problems.