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Until very recently, I "uploaded" items FROM my computer to the net. I "downloaded" things TO my computer from the net. Recently, I have seen these terms used the other way around! What's correct?
08 August 2018 8,656 0 View
It's a mystery to me! Multiple author work seems to give each author the same value as a single author piece. Some people with few contributions get far higher scores than regular publishers. Some...
07 July 2018 2,043 30 View
Many people seem able to accept that they came from nothing. Most seem happy with the notion that they express their being during the time that they are alive. But very, very few are willing to...
07 July 2018 4,277 7 View
I am NOT questioning the right of Israel to exist. Rather, I just wonder if reasonable criticisms of the policies and actions of the Israeli government constitute anti-Semitism. Some Israeli...
07 July 2018 4,023 2 View
Some minds seem to demand endless factual, or definitional input to provide a decision or an explanation. These outcomes often seem less convincing than those provided by high quality reasoning...
07 July 2018 6,202 17 View
The war of words between the political leaders of these two countries continues to heat up. Would either side ever consider war itself to be a viable option?
07 July 2018 1,845 3 View
A question I was asked decades ago. Still not sure of the correct answer!
06 June 2018 5,878 7 View
The "i'" newspaper reports that at a primary school (for the youngest children), near Cardiff in Wales, there recently a sports day for the children aged 5+ As is usual, parents were invited to...
06 June 2018 379 0 View
In my childhood all us good "cowboys" carried toy guns. Twenty years ago, the next generation did exactly the same. None us have turned into mass killers, or any type of killer at all. Prince...
06 June 2018 961 0 View
In many countries--especially in the developed world--people harm their own health with too much alcohol and/or too much junk food. Does the government have a duty to lower consumption of these...
06 June 2018 8,243 14 View
Don't ask me how they do it, but they do!
06 June 2018 4,246 2 View
Suggestions so far: silver cleaner/polish. Hydrogen peroxide. Ammonia.
06 June 2018 9,889 5 View
Should the things used to make what we all need to live be in the hands of private corporations, or held in some communal or public form? Why?
05 May 2018 7,589 0 View
I heard this some years ago, and thought it nonsense. Now? Well, climate change, Iran, rendition, torture... on and on with serious disagreements building and building. Conflict? War?
05 May 2018 312 3 View
The quote is from Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament. Surely, being completely good, all of the time, is pretty boring type of freedom? Maybe even no freedom at all?
05 May 2018 5,411 23 View
The cognitive enhancing drug Modafinil is being increasingly used by university students in the UK and elsewhere. Minimal side effects. It helps improve problem solving abilities. Is using it...
05 May 2018 4,262 20 View
Apparently, the development of "female" sexbots is nearly complete. They will be offered for sale quite soon. They will be submissive. They will have a degree of AI. Is this an acceptable product...
05 May 2018 3,148 5 View
Big idea in 19th century Britain. It's supposed to save post Brexit Britain. But what is it? Is it tariff free trade? Is it trade of anything customers want? Is it unregulated trade? Or...
04 April 2018 8,348 0 View
Is someone self-identifies as a "cripple" being offensive to others with similar and/or other disabilities? Or is it their business alone?
04 April 2018 347 16 View
As I understand it publishers must list all contributors and chapter titles in edited collections. This is so in their own promotional materials, and in what they pass on to places like...
02 February 2018 9,473 1 View
Your questions are important, but the answers are mostly in the main question! The principles you identify exist to establish the political society you seek! So you've got pretty far already!...
01 January 1970 2,940 4 View
Is this OK, or just a damn cheek?
01 January 1970 6,337 4 View
Things are changing on your RG! Go to your "Contributions" and click on one of your items. RG now list "Citations" top of the list instead of "Reads". Why does this matter? Well, RG is quite...
01 January 1970 1,892 1 View
This type of behaviour would involve you in following a "convenient fiction". For example, people are generally unequal in virtually all ways you can think of. Yet, in liberal-democratic societies...
01 January 1970 5,519 13 View
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think." (Edwin Schlossberg). Is this true? Thoughts please.
01 January 1970 4,321 0 View
With the G20 meeting soon, I've seen again an interesting notion: In the world there are four types of economy: developed, underdeveloped, Japan and Argentina. What are your thoughts on this?
01 January 1970 717 2 View
The UK's Universities Minster has said they should. But what does this mean? He thinks it means equipping students to benefit from higher incomes. But is that really the proper purpose of academia?
01 January 1970 7,837 1 View
I'm thinking primarily of "Reads" and "Recommendations". What numbers please you in any given week? Why? You might also identify the numbers that disappoint you.
01 January 1970 3,064 3 View
Lots of people commit themselves to seeking a life of happiness. However, numerous philosophers have claimed that such a life is not sufficiently noble for human beings. What do you think?
01 January 1970 4,457 20 View
Moves are afoot to start the publication of an anonymous journal. This is a journal in which academics can publish refereed, but anonymous articles on controversial subjects. This way, they may...
01 January 1970 1,234 10 View
Consolidation will help me to remember many details I have forgotten in the last seven years of serious illness. Yet, it will be concerned with many issues already published. On the other hand,...
01 January 1970 6,930 4 View
You will notice that you now get a rating on each of your publications, and an overall score on your file's front page. These scores purport to represent the value of your work to other...
01 January 1970 8,791 21 View
I've been struck recently by advertising on this website from organisations in the UK that, 1/offer to find the "right" PhD topic for you or 2/offer to write dissertations for students. Surely...
01 January 1970 5,726 2 View
If "freedom of speech" really means what it implies, surely citizens should be free to say whatever they want?
01 January 1970 9,019 5 View
Robert Peston, a respected UK journalist, has recently criticised BBC coverage of the Brexit debate suggesting that 'impartial journalism does not consist of giving two conflicting side equal...
01 January 1970 1,036 1 View
RG has some gross defects: 1/ it encourages members to upload copyrighted materials against the law. It then punishes you in its dubious rating systems if you choose to remain legal. 2/ it...
01 January 1970 6,240 8 View
I've heard it said that the British (via the Empire) gave the world three main things: 1/ Trains 2/ Football and 3/ The phrase "f**k off". Do people where you are claim your country gave the world...
01 January 1970 7,891 9 View
Here in the UK we've lost our way on this question. Perhaps where you are as well? We teach more and more with fewer resources, students for profit, not education. Researchers must be "profit...
01 January 1970 3,724 32 View
Yesterday, a male scientist at CERN, the Italian Prof. Strumia, insisted that physics was "built by men," and not by invitations to women. Today, it has been announced that for the first time...
01 January 1970 8,603 9 View
I see in today's news paper that the University of Baghdad is now ranked in the top 1 250 academic centres in the world which is an excellent achievement after so many years of horror and...
01 January 1970 7,109 4 View
We're being told here in the UK that bankruptcy is now a very real possibility for some of our "lesser" universities. They lack student numbers. They must charge their students lower fees. The...
01 January 1970 7,380 15 View
Probably not! I meant ii/ a sacrificial lamb slaughtered for the sake of Mulroney's sins. The first (i) is to do with her sexuality used for potentially positive reasons, the second (ii) to do...
01 January 1970 2,486 2 View
"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it is unfamiliar territory." Paul Fix. Does this apply to you, or anyone you know?
01 January 1970 3,966 14 View
In the UK, the American coffee bar chain Starbucks, is now offering to pay the fees for employees to pursue an online bachelor's degree. There are a few reasonable terms attached to the offer,...
01 January 1970 2,408 13 View
New research from a German/Swiss collaboration in psychology concludes that conspiracy theorists think in similar ways to creationist. Both tend to think "everything happens for a reason," and...
01 January 1970 5,772 15 View
I really don't care about people's gender. Their nationality. Their colour. Their sexualities. Their mode of transportation. Or anything really. But here, on this site, I do care that they have...
01 January 1970 1,754 6 View
It's a question that gets asked quite often. But ideas are very welcome! Give me your views please.
01 January 1970 8,211 29 View
Is this globalization in motion? If the EU eventually agree to Turkish membership, it will extend into Asia. Japan say a post-Brexit Britain could join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), despite...
01 January 1970 9,987 4 View
