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The original thought on copyright was that facts should not be copyrightable. This should be extended to all science and all non-fiction. Also the original thought was that parody …

No, the author(s) of the journal article still retain their copyright in most cases. This is about access to the articles without having to pay a charge to read it.

Now they are removing the 12-month post-publication embargo period for peer-reviewed manuscripts that result from federally funded scientific research. So, 12 months sooner.

But autofill doesn't work on non-Safari browsers on your Mac. Yet I truly love Keychain so much in my Apple ecosystem I go to the trouble of exporting my passwords every few weeks …

Brain games do little for the older mind. You are much better off lowering blood pressure and walking. But, if you insist, read [1]. [1]: https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/cognitive-h…

There are many, many, many pharmacy drugs that can stop suicidal thoughts fast and don't have the track record of the "modern antidepressants". Long, long, long track records. Smal…

Nonsense. As a non-profit founded in 1926 with 50 testing labs and partnerships with outside labs, the proof is in the test after test after test after test that is unbiased and, m…

The literature is actually quite robust on the benefits of probiotics. Take a look at the different peer-reviewed studies just on this list of products sold in the U.S. [1]. The qu…

But, yes, there are a number of apps that work with the Apple Music subscription that aren't Apple apps. For example, Cider[1]. [1]: https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/28/cider-is-an-alte…

So, now we can't use Teams to have the "water-cooler" moments that supervisors claim we need, but really we are having them on Signal or IOS and they just can't measure that. Organ…

So on Safari for MacOS, I usually use the Adguard for Safari extension. But I miss ublock origin. I have been playing around with the Orion (of Kagi search) fame since it will let …

The contracts with Microsoft need to be explained in more detail. Is there anyway we can edit the code to remove these exceptions?

Reminds me of the Copernic Agent (not their current desktop search product). Are there any other metasearch engines that download the results these days rather than stuff everythin…

This. It is amazing how long blood pressure pills, cholesterol pills, and vitamins take to make a budge in your blood tests.

2020 article.

It's about etiquette, not about your time. Remember what Emily Post says about hello[1], "On very informal occasions, it is the present fashion to greet an intimate friend with “He…

Hacker News is more about having a discussion of, usually, tangentially topics to the link someone has posted. But if you wish to discuss some of Caplan's theories such as "“Conven…

But in practice, spreadsheets are usually used for "brainstorming" in a research question to pose some possibilities, while jupyter is used for creating an executable paper for an …

Um, there actually are peer-reviewed studies which address things like running and health. For example, "The Influence of Running on Lower Limb Cartilage: A Systematic Review and M…

But people should be helped to draw their own conclusions with annotations where every time some crazy idea is repeated it is automatically flagged with "This idea has repeatedly b…

I love your counter examples. In moving beyond the famous Shannon-Weaver model of communication[1], the one with the "signal," "noise," "channel" that network folks love, researche…

The most well-known Z39.50 using software that still works is a paid citation manager called EndNote (the desktop client not the web client). You can ingest PDFs with that software…

Taking off the mask to squirt the spray seems risky anywhere in the hospital. I doubt crowded hospitals will adopt this protocol especially with a more transmissible variant.

You can't have a years-long pandemic without consequences, good and bad. My state of Texas has had schools open almost all of this time--and we're not doing better than the other s…