Should research conducted with federal dollars be made freely available to the public after it’s published? The NIH says yes. Publishers say not so fast. Last week, Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Calif.) introduced a bill, H.R. 6845 or the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, that would make it a lot harder for federal agencies… Continue reading »
Archives for September 2008
Monthly archives for September, 2008
Hey, Short Stack!
My former colleagues over at the Washington Post Book World are now blogging daily. Check it.
Be Brief, Get Published. Love It.
A call for six-word memoirs. (Via the LA Times’s Jacket Copy.)
Whales to Humans: Don’t Start Your Engines
The BBC has a thoroughly depressing (but worth reading) article on its website today about how human activity is making the oceans too noisy for dolphins and whales to communicate, with serious repercussions for their breeding-and-feeding habits. The Beeb reports on a new report from IFAW, the International Fund for Animal Welfare: Noise generated by… Continue reading »
RIP DFW
I don’t have anything useful to say about the suicide of David Foster Wallace, news of which has been widely if sketchily reported in the last 24 hours, except to say that it rattled me more than I’d have expected, and that most of my questions about it will likely never be answered. From my… Continue reading »