A famous matter of controversy in the Politics is fact that Aristotle elaborates on two ways to preserve a tyranny while he simultaneously holds it be worst regimes. In this note I argue uses these modes preservation indicate not necessarily regime without consent ruled, as traditionally understood by his predecessors, for seems believe tyrant can rule willing subjects well.

If reputation systems weight all perspectives similarly, they may devolve into simple majority rule. But if they give each user reputation scores that take only other similar users’ opinions into account, they run the risk of becoming “echo chambers” in which like-minded people reinforce each others’ views without being open to outside perspectives. Massa discusses design choices and trust metr...

Eugene Garfield, a linguist, is the remarkable founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). In the 1960s, Garfield came up with an intriguing concept that has become indispensable to the scientific community, one that he has bankrolled into an influential publishing industry. The concept is that citations in a scientific paper can be used to determine the importance of not only sc...