The trouble is, open science is failing. Nielsen says there needs to be a reward for sharing knowledge – it requires a change in the culture and reward system. Is that the way that open science might succeed? Here’s the key thing for me: the problem with many open science projects is they start too broad. MORE >>

For resilient communities, this will likely lead to the ability to replicate on the micro scale, many of the difficult to produce materials currently available only through a global industrial system. Some of the patents being filed are astoundingly basic, the equivalent of patenting Boolean algebra right at the birth of computer science. MORE >>

Book: Zapotec Science. In this book, Roberto González convincingly argues that in fact Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science, which has had a reciprocally beneficial relationship with European and United States farming and food systems since the sixteenth century. By Roberto J. MORE >>

in Science. Barrios also said many researchers have made mathematical models to understand the spread of behavior, but that the models have have little application in predicting what will actually happen in the real world. new network of all-star science bloggers. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Not a member? MORE >>

Fuller was on a life-long quest to make the world a better place.  It’s difficult to make the world a better place through myopia.  So we are now in a world where we are understanding the world faster than ever before.  The fact is that today advances in systemic thinking are requiring more holistic visions.  MORE >>