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Why Science Needs Applied Philosophy
If all you remember from your philosophy of science course in college are the names Kuhn and Popper, you could be missing out on philosophy’s important contributions to your own career or to training the next generation of scientific thinkers. A panel of philosophers of science spoke today at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, about philosophy’s...
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Who needs access? You need access!
Our governments spend millions on funding research.  Scientists do the work, write up their results as papers, format the manuscripts, prepare figures, and send them to publishers.  Other scientists handle editing for the publishers (unpaid).  Yet other scientists review the manuscripts for the editor (also unpaid).  The result of all this is a honed and polished research paper.  But all too...
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The case for open computer programs : Nature :...
Scientific communication relies on evidence that cannot be entirely included in publications, but the rise of computational science has added a new layer of inaccessibility. Although it is now accepted that data should be made available on request, the current regulations regarding the availability of software are inconsistent. We argue that, with some exceptions, anything less than the release of...
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Jueves 1, conferencia sobre "Ramanujan: Matemático...
Nueva conferencia del ciclo Cita con la Ciencia Este próximo jueves 1 se impartirá en la Sala de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias, a las 12 horas, y dentro del Ciclo de Conferencias Cita de Ciencia, la siguiente charla:   Ramanujan: Matemático genial desde la pobreza extrema,  impartida por Manuel López-Pellicer (Universidad de Valencia)
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“La subasta inversa es una nueva figura que contribuye al abaratamiento de las...”
– subasta electrónica | la subasta “inversa” del artículo 148 del texto refundido
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