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Monthly Archives: July 2007

Go Left TV: A Boot in Yer Protest Song

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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The Cult of the Amateur

Monday, July 9, 2007

The Encyclopedia Britannica is often cited as an example of a best result of the professional system, usually in contradistinction to the amateur efforts of Wikipedia.
However, Britannica’s spectacular failures to report on Einstein’s 1905 writings that fundamentally changed our understanding of this entire universe, along with their simultaneous refusal to change a centuries old attitude [...]

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