February 2012
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potinsocio asked: Hi, about your post on free text, here's a site where you can legally find everything that has no more author rights. Only thing, it's in french. It's 'les classiques des sciemces sociales' Since I can't put you the address here, you can easily google it.
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One's a Crowd
By ERIC KLINENBERG
MORE people live alone now than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities — Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis — 40 percent or more of all households contain a single occupant. In Manhattan and in Washington, nearly one in two households are occupied by a single person.
By international standards, these numbers are surprising —...
Valentine's Day Pick-up Lines from your Favorite...
Anselm: You’re the greatest conceivable being, baby. I’m glad you exist.
Aquinas: Hey remember when I said, “As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power?” Sorry I was such an asshole. Let me...
The Cost of Knowledge
Elsevier, the Dutch global publishing company, “owns” about 2,000 peer-reviewed journals, as well as 20,000 medical and science books. More important, the piratical publishing company charges libraries too much for its journals; it bundles subscriptions, which forces libraries to spend extra funds to buy journals they don’t want just to gain access to the few journals they do want (and which...