sábado, 29 de dezembro de 2018

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
Tem implicações para o financiamento de ciência.

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.


The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.

domingo, 11 de novembro de 2018

THE COLLEGE AS EXPERIENCE

https://pt.scribd.com/document/248013293/Collignon-Joseph-The-College-As-Experience-pdf

"When I think of my own schooling now, from grade
to graduate school, I see it as serving two unintended
purposes: setting me a notch above kids from work-
ing-class families in my home town and creating in me
the most debilitating conformity. This conformity to
the demands of my social caste, this slavery to
assumed moral codes, to philosophical speculation
about the "meaning of it all,'' this wretched pride in
"intellectual accomplishments" - all served well to
turn me into the grotesque, death-in-life figure that I
was as the graduate."

segunda-feira, 29 de outubro de 2018

"a ciência é heráldica"

"A ciência é heráldica. Onde fez o doutorado e onde publicou."

Sidarta Ribeiro (UFRN e Plataforma Brasil sobre Drogas)

heráldico     Datação: 1873

 adjetivo
1    relativo a brasão e armas; parassematográfico
Ex.: tronco h.
2    Derivação: sentido figurado.
que demonstra distinção, nobreza; aristocrático, nobre
Ex.: porte h.
3    Derivação: sentido figurado.
que demonstra majestade; grandioso, imponente
Ex.: construção de uma beleza h.

 substantivo masculino
4    m.q. heraldista (subst.)

--- 14:00h | O debate atual sobre a qualidade e a validade na pesquisa em psicofarmacológica ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-wLwMJNmA

segunda-feira, 22 de outubro de 2018

Costs and Benefits of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models



Jan272009 

The JISC-funded report “Economic Implications of Alternative Scholarly Publishing Models: Exploring the costs and benefits” by John Houghton et al. was released today:


full report (pdf)

From the report:

A reduction of revenue to the publishing industry, should it arise, would imply a reduction of activity and employment in the industry. Such adjustments are difficult for those concerned, but an economy is a dynamic system and, over the business cycle, is likely to achieve something close to ‘full employment’. As a result, the capital and labour no longer employed in publishing would be employed in an alternative activity. Given the relative size of the publishing industry and the rate at which alternative publishing models are being adopted, it is unlikely that the UK economy would have difficulty adjusting to such a change

The new open-source economics

https://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics/discussion?utm_campaign=BeepBeepBites%20-%20Nieuwsbrief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_unyZ9nmG40jtZzyc4lWAVhR3Swdl7URMDGuVMZHnSzJLwDuyPT4zGatSRdUKUEi6uK-X3SgcrUFCZr2KoAdybyhGtEw

Yochai Benkler
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TEDGlobal 2005

The new open-source economics