Romanian science in free fall

Don't fall in common science pitfall!

The fundamental mission of science in providing knowledge and guidance for solving current and future challenges seems to be changing at accelerated pace, undoubtedly as a result of other economical, technological, and social deep changes. The trend is easily noticeable from an objective and neutral field toward an open, large, and unmerciful business market with many subjective and biased crit...

Free fall and cellular automata

Three reasonable hypotheses—homogeneity in time and space, bounded velocity of propagation of information, and bounded density of information—lead to the thesis that physical phenomena can be described and simulated with cellular automata. This implication has in fact been formalized into a theorem both in the classical [6] and the quantum case [1], albeit in flat space. Further evaluating this...

Medicare's reputation in free fall before budget.

The Rise and Fall of Basic Science

When you don't have a clue where to look for something you are interested in, such as cookies hidden in the kitchen, the best strategy may be a random search. If that something can be remotely sensed by you, e.g., smelled, then your search would be facilitated by adding gradient-sensing— if the gradient over two or more samples taken along a path is positive don't change the path, if not—select...

Free Community Science and the Free Development of Science

Susanne McCabe I fi nd the arguments raised by the PLoS Medicine editors very useful [1] as I had not considered that a scientifi c community would tolerate barring access to registers of trials. It leaves huge gaps for exploitation by privileged groups. It is not only colleagues in research and allied professions who need access but the global community, including members of the public whereve...