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Maybe a law reducing the length of copyright on academic papers to a few years.

A product has its components fabricated in east Asia, is assembled in east Asia, sold in Europe, and the profits from the sale are held in Europe. Somehow you consider this “illega…

Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.

Perhaps you meant “convergent function ratios.” The first example equations are parabolas (divergent).

From the first sentence of the paper: “I explore functions f that can be written as a sum f=g1+g2 where g1 and g2 are shifted and possibly reflected versions of each other, both st…

My friend stopped graduate school at a MS and didn’t pursue a PhD because all the American grad students were forced to take teaching assistantships while the foreign grad students…

The Apple STOCKS app on my iPhone is showing updates as I watch and says Yahoo! at the bottom. So, it seems Yahoo is still providing fairly real-time stock quotes via some means.

xkcd of land mammal biomass https://xkcd.com/1338/

I wonder if that protruding sensor block can be used for touch ID somehow?

Arizona doesn't participate in daylight savings time. And, we really don't need to be saving any daylight in Arizona.

Sadly, this is the way many federal laws come to be. Agencies and Bureaus in the executive branch propose rules(laws) and if congress doesn't specifically vote them down, they beco…

My paraphrase of page two with a direct quote: He possibly did stuff important to us and "other nations controlled by insane dictators." We should consider watching him and protect…

If you liked this essay, you might also like the book by Marcel Berger, Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Higher Geometry. A quote from the cover: "The underlying motivating c…

And yet, it doesn't taste like chicken. :)

In the video it looks like she was still able to use the phone, the angle is such that you can't see the crack while she is scrolling. Are there any other videos where she uses the…

What does a federal judge have to do to be removed?

My Dad told me that the house he grew up in was ordered from Sears. They had to build a foundation to set it on, but everything else was shipped to them from Sears and they assembl…

New symmetries for elliptic curves. It seems like these pariah groups could be used to speed up cracking elliptic curve cryptography. Does anyone have an informed opinion?

Does anyone know if these pariah groups could make elliptic curve cryptography easier to crack?

In "Exploring Black Holes" by Taylor & Wheeler, project A is titled 'Global Positioning System', where they say locating your position accurately depends crucially on General Relat…