A nice read for the weekend: Michael Nielsen on Doing science in the open in Physics World.
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-- Statistics on the professionalization of science blogging, a topic I have banged on about in the past. Nothing really new, but nice to have it somewhat quantified.
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Michael Nielsen has been named a SPARC Innovator for 2012.
I don't usually do awards announcements here but I've made exceptions in the past for friends and I'm doing that again today.
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Michael Nielsen û Why the world needs quantum mechanics
A very nice, detailed, and most importantly, accessible explanation of Bell's theorem. Needs more dogs, though.
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Conventional wisdom holds that quantum mechanics is hard to learn. This is more or less correct, although often overstated. However, the necessity of abandoning conventional ways of thinking about the world, and…
Open-source science doesn't make any sense. The analogy to open-source programming is very shallow. However, no doubt science will evolve to take advantage of communications tools more effectively.