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The need and format for publications is stifling innovation and science adoption
Nowadays two problems affect science. - The *quantum* necessary to publish scientific discovery is large. This not only heavily increases the time needed for publication, but it also impacts the time required to stay up to date with the scientific literature, stifling innovation. This is a prob...
Clarifying Heraclitus' criticism of polymathy as a bad craft
In fragment XXV (Khan, 1979), Heraclitus writes that polymathy is bad craft (kakotechnie). However, in that extract he is referring to the “pilling up” of learnings without the application of rigor and without good guiding principles. Notwithstanding, cognates of polymath’s termination "-math...
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