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George Church ascribes his visionary ideas to narcolepsy
July 17, 2017Washburn Preserve
July 15, 2017NYTimes.com: ‘Alexa, Where Have You Been All My Life?’
July 15, 2017‘Alexa, Where Have You Been All My Life?’
Siri is so five years ago: How a sleek, smooth-talking cylinder from Amazon stole our hearts, bamboozled our spouses and enchanted our children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/style/alexa-amazon-echo.html?mwrsm=Email
In Rural Oasis, Serpico Finds New Adversaries – NYTimes.com
July 14, 2017In Rural Oasis, #Serpico Finds New Adversaries
http://www.NYTimes.com/2013/07/05/nyregion/for-serpico-who-fought-police-corruption-a-new-conflict-over-woodland.html Famous cop from the past protecting #trees from a McMansion developer
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“But now Mr. Serpico’s serenity has been broken and he finds himself battling a new nemesis. This time, it is not an entire agency, but a local developer and town officials who Mr. Serpico says have ignored his complaints; this time, it is not over issues like taking cash payments from drug dealers, but over the fate of some trees and the desecration of pristine woodland.
“It’s like fighting the system again,” Mr. Serpico said. “Here I’m trying to enjoy my tranquillity and I’m being dragged back into a world of corruption.”
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Lame duck laureates
July 14, 2017Lame duck laureates
http://www.Economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/08/nobel-prize-economics Interesting #bibliometric analysis of Nobelists: their normalized citations peak at the prize
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“The authors count the number of citations for each Nobel
prize-winner, using a service provided by JSTOR, a digital library. They look at what happens to Nobel prize-winners before and after they win their prizes. The data span from 1930 to 2005. One of the problems facing the authors was that, in 2005, there were many more JSTOR articles than in 1930. Therefore, raw citation numbers were
standardised by the total number of articles published in that year. The authors call the standardised units “Arrows”, after Kenneth Arrow, the economist who won the prize in 1972.”
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