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andrewducker) wrote2011-12-22 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-12-22 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 22-12-2011
- The Silliest Things said to a group of SF editors, writers and academics
- Building new London homes is cheaper than providing temporary housing
- All publicly-funded research data should be made freely accessible says UK government
- No payouts for damage during the summer "riots". Because they weren't riots. Apparently.
- Dog+Ducks=CUTE
- The biology behind severe PMS
- Judge says extradition from US quicker than from UK
- A fantastic teacher shows her class that they don't have to conform to gender roles
- Stupid Things the British Believe About Americans (and vice versa)
- Microsoft Bringing HTML5 and JavaScript to Office 15
- What really caused the eurozone crisis?
- Want to know if you're depressed? Look at a picture of your mother.
While lying in an MRI scanner, of course.
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Headdesk.
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Until I was 14 or so, anyone who didn't know me automatically called me "son". I was never the princess when the dressing up box came out. I played with bikes, knives, climbing trees and setting fire to stuff , music, judo and and later, computers and karate. Most of my friends were boys. On the rare occasions my mum put me in a dress/skirt I pretty much looked like a boy in drag [I had very short hair by 70's standards because it is *horrible* to look after]. Fortunately I was pretty oblivious as to whether anyone thought this was weird, and my parents never really subscribed to the whole boys toys/girls toys thing. I got microscopes, books, crystal growing kits, scalextrix (sp?) and toy soldiers and matchbox cars - and, yes, the odd baby/sindy doll.
I do joke that I didn't really grow up as a girl at all.
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http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
The assumption is annoying, certainly.
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The UK, on the other hand, is saved from lowering wages because we can just inflate/devalue our way out of it.
Other Euro countries, on the other hand, not so much.
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Personally, I think that the suggestion of "sell off old housing stock so long as the cash is used to build more housing" has potential, as it would at least increase the size of the housing available.
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http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2011/december/government-has-published-details-on-the-build-now-pay-later-scheme/
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For quite a long time, there was incentive for the UK government(s) to not encourage house-building in London - increasing the number of houses available would have stopped or slowed the rise in prices, and this rise made people feel wealthier (and gave them an asset to borrow against) and thus made them feel that their government was doing a good job, since they never had it so good. The only problem with this plan is that it was unsustainable.
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What about work that's jointly funded? What about a paper spanning work from more than one funder? (With possibly mutually-incompatible requirements?) What about re-analysis or meta-analysis by third parties? What about review articles? What about work written up after all funding has ceased? (Possibly temporarily.) What counts as peer-reviewed?
The NIH specifies some of this. Other public sector funders will have their own regulations and requirements. Commercial, charity and foundation funders are likely to take an entirely different line. (Some charities and foundations might well fall in with widespread public sector practice, but by no means all. Commercial research funders often have very hard-line policies about not publishing, at least for a certain length of time and/or only after scrutiny/veto.) Universities and subject bodies have their own requirements and/or traditional practices for paper depositing. Almost all researchers get funding from multiple bodies, so there will multiple regulations, which will differ. With luck and a lot of international coordination the amount of mutual incompatibility will be minimised, but I suspect it's unavoidable.
All of these requirements and compliance data will need to be logged, captured, reported and audited, on both funder and funding recipient side. Very little of which can be done by non-specialists.
I still think it's worthwhile, but to pretend it's cost-free is mistaken.
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Hahahaha!
Wages in the UK went down 3.5% in the last year, and from memory they were down the year before as well, and possibly the one before that too. See e.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/nov/23/uk-household-earnings-fall
Or did you mean saved from lowering nominal wages? Which is indeed an important thing - it's becoming increasingly apparent in the current eurocrisis that nominal wages are very, very hard to lower.
But that's rather different from an unqualified "wages". Inflation does matter!
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The Germans seem to think that everyone ought to go to a heavily export-oriented economy like they did. the Lake Woebegon solution.
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And yes, you have to have places to export to - if everywhere is as good at it as Germany then nobody gets a positive balance!
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