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Archive for December 23rd, 2008

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Santa Delivered Some Weed to the Editorial Board

By Thoreau
$550 for 100 reprints?  I mean, yeah, it’s nice glossy paper, but I can go to Kinkos and get a dozen prints on really nice paper (which is more than I’m likely to need in this era of the pdf) for, um, whatever it is, a hell of a lot less than $550.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

(Addendum) Dennis Prager: Neocon Sexologist and Marriage Counselor Opines at Clown Hall

By Mona
[When 'Doctor' Prager declares: " It is an axiom of contemporary marital life that if a wife is not in the mood, she need not have sex with her husband," what does Prager think the "remedy" ought to be, if the "axiom" is wrong"? I leave that to readers to surmise.]

 
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Future’s so bright, we gotta wear negative index invisibility cloaks

By Thoreau
Optics Express (a completely open-access, non-subscription journal funded entirely by exorbitant author fees*, grrrrrr….) has several articles on energy in its latest issue.  Might be interesting.
*Actually, this is probably the fairest way to fund a journal.  The most immediate benefit of most articles is to the author, who gets to list a publication on [...]