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Din nou a publicat unul un articol despre dragutele noastre jurnale academice… 24.000 la numar, se pare, and growing.
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Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier’s journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges €34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read 10 and you pay 10 times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright.
The average cost [...]

…si spunea:
“What does a view from a high place remind of you? The impulse you feel when you look down at the world you live in. A violent cognition that attacks you even if you refuse it. An emotion created by an overlooking view. That’s “far”. The scenery you see from a high place is [...]

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Exista doua duminici: una pe larg si una grabita.
Maestrul bizantin Ioannis Kladas (sec. XV) ne arata ce inseamna sa dantuiesti nemiscandu-te si sa te misti nedeplasandu-te.

…si spunea:
“Comrades and citizens […] the power of science stands like a tower, and the Babylon of old with its lizards and droughts will be destroyed by man’s knowing hand. The [...] Reason sleeps not and no one will defect its hand. On the contrary, it will subject the whole earth entirely to scientific influence!”

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Mi-a placut cum unul din exploratori compara Orasul cu un fruct cu multe, multe straturi. As spune ca, referitor la marele aglomerari urbane, fructul are o infinitate de layer-e, dar nici un miez… Oricat ai curata, oricat ai sapa, tot nu dai de centru…

…si spunea:
“Ceea ce e dedesubt este aidoma cu ce e deasupra.”

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