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Can we teach robots ethics?
Ole makes a good point "Not before they are able to justify themselves."

Loving Vincent - the world's first fully painted feature film
(imdb)

We Still Can’t Decide Whether To Put One Space After A Period Or Two

siehe auch: Oxford comma

Fraud Scandals Sap China’s Dream of Becoming a Science Superpower
"black market that sells everything from positive peer reviews to entire research articles"
"universities offer hefty research grants and salary bonuses to faculty members who get published in journals with high impact factors".

Nachtrag: retractionwatch.com

Footage of German American Bund Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939
When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City.

Hier wieder mal ein offenes Browserfenster, das ich endlich schließen will.
The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science.
"They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors".

The preprint dilemma
How to read a scientific paper

see also: seriously

Publishers take ResearchGate to court, alleging massive copyright infringement
"Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic networking site, alleging copyright infringement on a mass scale. The move comes after a larger group of publishers became dissatisfied with ResearchGate’s response to a request to alter its article-sharing practices."

This was just a matter of time.

Für die Klimafans unter Euch: How well have climate models projected global warming? "Carbon Brief has collected prominent climate model projections since 1973 to see how well they project both past and future global temperatures, as shown in the animation below."