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Punks are nice people pretending to be bad and hippies are bad people pretending to be nice.

Kennt jemand den Ursprung?

A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity
"Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. ...
Although excavations over the last century uncovered traces of ancient settlements and the goddess figurines, it was not until local archaeologists in 1972 discovered a large fifth-millennium B.C. cemetery at Varna, Bulgaria, that they began to suspect these were not poor people living in unstructured egalitarian societies. Even then, confined in cold war isolation behind the Iron Curtain, Bulgarians and Romanians were unable to spread their knowledge to the West."

The Lost World of Bulgarian Communism

Cherga Sessions

Nachtrag: A reformist prime minister takes over in Bulgaria

When is 'self-plagiarism' OK? New guidelines offer researchers rules for recycling text
Effort aims to identify what's ethical and legal - and what's not.

Ich habs selbst noch nicht gelesen, halte es aber für ein wichtiges Thema.

The 100 'Best' Books on City-Making Ever Written?

Sao Tome wählt: Große Versprechen - wenig Hoffnung

Opinion: We Should Ditch Awards in Science

Endlich mal wieder was richtig zusammenhangsloses.

DPG Position Paper on the Future of Scientific Publishing

Nachtrag: SustainVBL