I am in the process of revising my annual lecture to first year university students on the topic of “curly arrows”. I like to start my story in 1924, when Robert Robinson published the very first example[cite]gg9g[/cite] as an illustration of why nitrosobenzene undergoes electrophilic bromination in the para position of the benzene ring. I follow this up by showing how “data mining” can be used to see if this supports his assertion.

Currently, English is the lingua franca of science. It wasn’t always that way, and there’s no reason to expect it always will be. A century ago, all the great physicists who wanted to be part of the quantum revolution went to study in Germany.

I first started writing this blog some weeks ago after I was lucky enough to be invited along to a review performance of the Broadway stage play, Good Night, and Good Luck .  Thanks to my friendship with David Bianculli, who always gets the best tickets, I found myself in the audience of a truly astonishing play.

Should a series be watched in production, broadcast, or some other order? Most viewers will never consider this question, only turning their minds to the order in which episodes are aired or queued up on a DVD or streaming service if parts of an ongoing story are shown out of sequence.

Since 2019, when The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) launched its first AI pilot project, we have been exploring how the Second Machine Age is reshaping learning.

Some time in 2023, Tom Kalil told me he thought it would be a good idea to carve out a chunk of time and get to work on some ARPA project histories.

Some time in 2023, Tom Kalil told me he thought it would be a good idea to carve out a chunk of time and get to work on some ARPA project histories. The ARPA model was proliferating, and Tom felt these pieces might find a ready audience of ARPA emulators and fans eager to make use of the actionable information. Tom, who was then at Schmidt Sciences and is now President of Renaissance Philanthropy, has good taste.

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What are the ways in which we can resist the current “delivery” and “assessment” infrastructures?

A couple of days ago, iNaturalist – a citizen science project/platform for observations of living beings in the natural world – announced that they were going to be part of a grant/program of Google to implement generative ‘AI’ (or “GenAI” ¹ ) into their tooling.

Open Access Dashboard Collection Launched As Open Access becomes increasingly central to scholarship and science policy, understanding the proportion of open publications within the overall publication output, whether at the level of research-performing organizations, individual countries, or globally, is gaining importance.