Thursday, July 26, 2012

A sad tale of publishing gone mad

I found this sad story interesting and disturbing because of what it reveals about journal impact factors, university rankings, self-citations, Elsevier, scientific crack pots, lawsuits....
More of the weird history is here and here.

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Thermodynamics and emergence

Novelty.  Temperature and entropy are emergent properties. Classically, they are defined by the zeroth and second laws of thermodynamics, re...