New term: “Coercive citation”
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Two-thirds of researchers report ‘pressure to cite’ in Nature poll
February 2, 2020Opinion | She Helped a Customer in Need. Then U.S. Bank Fired Her. – The New York Times
February 1, 2020Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
February 1, 2020QT:{{”
“He had also written a farewell letter. “I believe that working for something larger than yourself is the greatest thing a human can do. A family, a cause, a company, a country—these things give shape and purpose to an otherwise mechanical and brief human existence,” the letter read. “The downside about things that are larger than ourselves, of course, is that we who have the privilege of serving them ourselves are fungible. It is the fundamental definition. You can’t have the grace of the one without the other.””
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Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor
235 B’way Nyack NY
January 28, 2020The setting for Hopper’s Pretty Penny which is now on display at the Smith Museum Collection
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/235bway
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/235-N-Broadway_Nyack_NY_10960_M38495-15257
Pretty Penny (Edward Hopper) – Picture of Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton – Tripadvisor
January 28, 2020“Pretty Penny” by Edward Hopper – Nyack Library – New York Heritage Digital Collections
January 28, 2020https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/nyacklib/id/1938
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1939, Edward Hopper painted a picture of the house known as “Pretty Penny” for his neighbor, Helen Hayes.
To raise money to save Hopper’s birthplace, the Edward Hopper Preservation Foundation produced this stationery in 1985, noting that the house is the Nyack, NY home of the famous actress.
The original oil on canvas, 29 x 40 inches, is owned by Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA.
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Alzheimer’s may be caused by haywire immune system eating brain connections
January 28, 2020QT:{{”
“Stevens has spent much of her career studying a normal immune mechanism that prunes weak or unnecessary synapses as the brain matures from the womb through adolescence, allowing more important connections to become stronger. In this process, a protein called C1q sets off a series of chemical reactions that ultimately mark a synapse for destruction. After a synapse has been “tagged,” immune cells called microglia—the brain’s trash disposal service—know to “eat” it, Stevens says. When this system goes awry during the brain’s
development, whether in the womb or later during childhood and into the teen years, it may lead to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, she says.”
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Wikipedia’s top-cited scholarly articles — revealed
January 28, 2020Wikipedia’s top-cited scholarly articles — revealed
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05161-6
