Liviu Giosan indicates on the Ad-Astra site a new letter recently published in the prestigious science journal Nature, about the general situation of scientific research in Eastern Europe (btw: I am 100% convinced that although a lot of these elements are common to most Eastern Europe, Romania’s situation was – and still is- the worst).
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Si despre ce as vrea sa scriu astazi
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intai de toate despre faptul ca mergem iarasi inapoi in materie de educatie si cercetare in Romania. Si scriam exact despre asta si intr-un interviu pentru noua revista Cultura acum cateva saptamani (numarul respectiv nu a aparut inca online dar interviul in forma ne-editata va fi publicat in postul meu urmator), insa nu ma gandeam sa se indeplineasca intocmai… Acolo spuneam ca nu pot spune ce va face Hardau dar deocamdata e prea mare tacere…ceea ce nu prevesteste nimic bun…si ca tot ce trebuie sa faca ‘mnealui e sa continue reformele lui Miclea.
A clash of eras
This is something you cannot miss: an amazing act of courage by an Arab (Arab-American) scholar, a woman psychologist, who speaks up on the Al-Jazeera TV channel. I have never seen somebody so blunt and open about issues usually untackled.
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… or rather not entirely new- objectively speaking- but recent impressions from my part, so to say. This time about classical music, economic research and some new scientific highlights…
→ Read more I ran into an excellent resource of classical music online that has, among other things, short informative biographies of many composers and- particularly- complete librettos for a few hundreds of the most famous world operas.
Deadly Medicine
The Science edition from the 24th of February also describes an online collection of “Twisted Science” exibits. It is about the online version of an exhibit of “deadly medicine” at the U.S.
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