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= Education
{wiki}
= Educational system
{synonym}
One of the causes <Ciro Santilli> care the most about: <ourbigbook com/motivation>.
<Ciro Santilli>'s view of the ideal teaching method: <how to teach>.
A list of complaints against education: <education is broken>{full}.
How to improve education? Simple:
* <tax the rich>[tax the fuck out of the rich] people and companies: <wealth tax> and invest it in education
* invest intelligently as mentioned at <what poor countries have to do to get richer>:
* focus on fewer higher excellence schools that select the most promising poor students, rather than giving crappy average to everyone
* use <OurBigBook.com>
= Education is broken
{parent=Education}
= Broken educational system
{synonym}
Once Ciro was at a University course practical session, and a graduate was around helping out. Ciro asked if what the graduate did anything specifically related to the course, and they replied they didn't. And they added that:
> One has to put the bread on the table.
Even though Ciro was already completely disillusioned by then, that still made an impression on him. Something is really wrong with this <shit>.
Other people that think that the educational system is currently <bullshit> as of 2020:
* <Einstein>, quoted in The New York Times, March 13 1949, p. 34:https://www.institute4learning.com/2020/01/15/14-great-quotes-from-einstein-on-education-with-sources/{ref}
> It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
* <Ron Maimon>
* <Xavier Niel>: https://fortune.com/2018/11/30/billionaire-xavier-niel/ "Want This Billionaire's Attention? Drop Out of School" (2018). He also created <42 (school)>.
* <Year On>
* by Zach Caceres
* https://zach.dev/blog/unschooling-myself
* https://zach.dev/blog/mpc
* Anand Raja submission "Students and Universities": https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmdius/170/170ii.pdf[], https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandraja/[].
* https://xsrus.com/life-school-and-the-80-20-rule[]. Also GPA 2.0 linked from https://xsrus.com/ to https://xsrus.com/gpa-2.0 but https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1506185601816530944[down now]
> School rewards effort linearly \[...\]. Unlike school, the real world is nonlinear. By that, I mean most of what you do at work is a waste of time.
* A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
* https://www.learningforreal.org/ by Mary Ruth McGinn, a K12 teacher in the USA.
https://www.learningforreal.org/quotes/[] quotes Elbert Hubbard:
> School should not be preparation for life. School should BE life.
She's somewhat focused on the <performing arts>, but what she says applies basically equally well to the <natural sciences>. A talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggYL9gQeVEk She talks about <authentic learning>.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson (2017)
* <Erik Finman thinks school is broken>
* https://sociable.co/technology/silicon-valley-education-students-entrepreneurs/ Bringing Silicon Valley into Schools: How to Make Students Entrepreneurs of Their Own Education (2016)
* https://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model The Invented History of 'The Factory Model of Education' by Audrey Watters (2015)
* https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbescoachescouncil/2025/04/17/the-ai-fear-factor-why-leaders-resist-and-how-to-move-forward/ The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education by Steve Denning (2011)
\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20230615015633im_/https://preview.redd.it/vsi1dzfqjyf51.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=95f4378c867d9dc6cfdbab35bc8933b2543afed1]
{title=Educational systems are carried by <Indian> YouTubers <meme>}
{description=Over a <Dmitriy Khaladzhi carrying a horse over his shoulders> meme template.}
{source=https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/i6hh1d/what_would_we_do_without_them/}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxzkl2cmNY]
{title=Peter Gregory from <Silicon Valley (TV series)> shows his hate for <university> in a fake <TED (conference)> talk}
{description=
Key moment: someone from the crowd cries:
> The true value of a college education is intangible!
to which the speaker replies:
> The true value of snake oil is intangible as well.
<IMDb> https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0927706[says] it's not a cameo. It really looked like one, good acting, but what a missed opportunity. Imagine a <Xavier Niel> appearance.
}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4y1FN--_6M]
{title=David Deutsch on Education interviewed by Aidan McCullen (2019)}
{description=
Key quote that hits the nail:
> \[...\] the existing assumptions behind educational systems are that the purpose of education is to transmit valuable knowledge faithfully from on generation to the next. From people who already have that knowledge, to people who don't.
So the knowledge is conceived of as a kind of valuable fluid, which you pour from one generation to the next, pour it into their brains.
So right... the purpose of education is not to teach facts. The purpose of education is to propose ways of thinking, which students themselves must try to apply and decide if it suits them! And use the patterns of thinking that are useful to <how to teach/help students achieve their goal>[reach their goals].
<video The Purpose of Education by Noam Chomsky (2012)>[Like Noam Chomsky], he proposes education has been a system of indoctrination more than anything else e.g. https://twitter.com/daviddeutschoxf/status/1406374921748496386[]:
> All compulsory education, "tough" or not, "love" or not, in camps or not, and whether it "traumatises" or not, is a violation of human rights.
At https://twitter.com/DavidDeutschOxf/status/1051475227476185089 another good quote by <Churchill>:
> Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
The same video also mentions in passing that <john Wheeler> used to be Deutsch's boss, but I can't find a reference for it very easily.
}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qup1BLNFDWU]
{title=Quote selection by <Charles Bukowski> (2016)}
{description=
> Generally speaking, you're free until you're about 4 years old. Then you go to grammar school and then you start becoming... oriented and shoved into areas. You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain some of it... Then you work the 8 hour job with almost a feeling of goodness, like you're doing something. Then you get married like marriage is a victory, and you have children like children is a victory... Marriage, birth, children. It's something they have to do because there's nothing else to do. There's no glory in it, there's no steam, there's no fire. It's very, very flat... You get caught into the stricture of what you're supposed to be and you have no other choice. You're finally molded and melded into what you're supposed to be. I didn't like this.
}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38_fwZv7gI]
{title=Was <MIT> worth it? by Joseph Li}
{description=
* <Students must be allowed to progress as fast as they want>
}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVIIHtMCt8g]
{title=I "Crashed Out" After Studying Physics In College by Alex Wei}
{description=A large part of his problem are <High expectations Asian father> issues. But society does absolutely nothing to help either, treating <education as an IQ test>.}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-GEzM7iTk]
{title=The decline of play by Peter Gray TEDxNavesink talk}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piSLobJfZ3c]
{title=Can you get an MIT education for \$2,000? by Scott Young}
= Education is an IQ test
{parent=Education is broken}
= Education as an IQ test
{synonym}
The goal of our <broken educational system> is not to teach.
It is simply a test of who can learn the most in the least amount of time.
What is being learnt is of little importance. it doesn't matter if it is <How to teach/Explain how to make money with the lesson>[useful] or <How to teach/Explain why the subject is beautiful>[beautiful] things.
The <exams are useless>[useless exams] are set exactly at a difficulty level that produces a <normal distribution> of grades:
* too hard and everyone gets 0, so you can't split people well
* too easy and everyone gets 100, so you can't split them well either
The difficulty is just set for your particular group of students.
As <Elon Musk> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/10/elon-musk-college-for-fun-not-learning[put it]:
> I think college is basically for fun and to prove that you can do your chores, but they're not for learning
= Education as a system of indoctrination
{parent=Education is broken}
Whenever <Ciro Santilli> walks in front of a school and sees the tall gates it makes him sad. Maybe 8 year olds need gates. But do we need to protect 15 year olds like that? Students should be going out to see the world, both good and evil not hiding from it! We should instead be guiding them \i[to] the world. But instead, we are locking them up in <brainwashing> centers.
<video The Purpose of Education by Noam Chomsky (2012)> puts it well, education can be either be:
* a <brainwashing> to make people comply with The Establishment
* a way to get people genuinely interested and <how to teach/help students achieve their goal>[help them to reach their life goals]
He has spoken about that infinitely, e.g. from when he was thin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqMAlgAnlo
Bibliography:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts7CEFQM2bE How Education Became Indoctrination: Dr Stephen Hicks (2021) Interview by https://www.youtube.com/c/KnowlandKnows Interesting channel. "Are you sick of woke-washing in education? Free speech distinguishes education from indoctrination" and "I taught at <Eton College> before I was fired because 'The Patriarchy Paradox' caused offence.".
= Stuff school should actually teach
{parent=Education is broken}
{tag=Essays by Ciro Santilli}
* <having more than one natural language is bad for the world>[English]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet[NATO phonetic alphabet]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system[Mnemonic major system]
= Educational technology
{parent=Education}
{wiki}
= EdTech
{c}
{synonym}
= Teacher
{parent=Educational technology}
{wiki}
= Mentor
{parent=Teacher}
{wiki}
= Amazing mentor
{parent=Mentor}
= Private tutor
{parent=Teacher}
{wiki}
= Notable private tutor
{parent=Private tutor}
* <Joseph Priestley> was employed as tutor to Lord Shelburne's children, which gave him much needed financial stability and allowed him to pursue some of his most important works
= E-learning
{parent=Educational technology}
See also: <e-learning website>.
= Free education
{parent=Education}
= Gifted education
{parent=Education}
{wiki}
If <ourbigbook com/motivation>[school weren't bullshit], 99% of students would be in gifted education for what they truly love and are good at.
What is sad about many programs is that they are exclusivist and non scalable, selecting people some how and non scalably educating them. We need a more "here's some projects let's do them whoever can" approach to things, maybe like <Google Summer of Code>.
Related programs:
* <Advanced Placement>
* https://potentialplusuk.org/
= BeyondResearch
{c}
{parent=Gifted education}
https://beyondresearch.physicsbeyond.com/
= Google Summer of Code
{c}
{parent=Gifted education}
{title2=2005-}
{wiki}
= Nguyen Hue High School for the Gifted
{c}
{parent=Gifted education}
{tag=Vietnam}
{wiki}
= Young Gifted and Talented Programme
{c}
{parent=Gifted education}
{tag=Education in the United Kingdom}
{wiki}
* https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9065/
= Magnet school
{parent=Gifted education}
{wiki}
= North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
{parent=Magnet school}
{wiki}
Found them through: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emissions_Spectra.webm Epic.
= School
{parent=Education}
{wiki}
Basically the same remarks as for <university>, just 10 times more useless, see also: <ourbigbook com/motivation>{full}.
= Academic term
{parent=School}
= Fall term
{parent=Academic term}
= Spring term
{parent=Academic term}
This actually happens in Winter. But they are so fucking <euphemistic> that winter has to be removed from the calendar.
= Summer term
{parent=Academic term}
This actually happens in spring. But because they are so <euphemistic> winter had to be removed from the calendar, it gets shifted a left.
= Boarding school
{parent=School}
{wiki}
= Innovative school
{parent=School}
= Innovative schools
{synonym}
Including notably schools that follows <Ciro Santilli>'s ideas as shown at <how to teach>.
* <#The National Science Institute>, <#The Geek Group>: came to Ciro Santilli's attention due to their <Bitcoin> activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIRvn89988
= Moonshots in Education
{c}
{parent=Innovative school}
https://www.moonshots.org/
By <Esther Wojcicki>, <Sergey Brin>'s ex-mother-in-law:
> A moonshot classroom is a fundamental shift to give students more autonomy and agency in the classroom and entrusts them with greater ownership of their learning outcomes.
So basically strong focus on <self-directed learning>.
Also:
> Real World Work. Students must produce learning projects with real world applications and an authentic audience.
so along the lines of <project-based learning>. <Ciro Santilli> specifically likes the "authentic audience" part, related: <How to teach/Projects must aim for novelty>{full}
= eLearning provider
{c}
{parent=Innovative school}
\Video[https://github.com/cirosantilli/media/blob/master/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites/hits.json]
{title=Infomercial: For-Profit Online University by <#Adult Swim>}
= Mentava
{c}
{parent=eLearning provider}
https://www.mentava.com/
> Mentava's software-based daily tutor gets students on track for college-level math and computer science before high school.
= OpenClassrooms
{c}
{parent=eLearning provider}
{wiki}
https://openclassrooms.com/
Login walls. Lol.
= Innovative high school
{parent=Innovative school}
= Escola da Ponte
{c}
{parent=Innovative high school}
{title2=Portugal}
{title2=1976-}
{wiki}
https://www.escoladaponte.pt/
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMNVc0Yz434]
{title=Aprender em Comunidade by Prof. José Pacheco}
{description=In Portuguese. Title translation: "Learn in community".}
= XP School
{c}
{parent=Innovative high school}
{title2=Doncaster}
{title2=UK}
{title2=2014-}
{wiki}
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-uniforms-no-detentions-no-maths-lessons-is-xp-in-doncaster-the-school-of-the-future-jnc6n80kq
Amazing <self-directed learning> direction:
> The pupils have a parents' evening coming up but instead of their teachers giving an account of their progress, it is a "student-led conference" at which they must present a portfolio of their work, explain what they are most proud of and discuss where they need to put in more effort.
https://world.hey.com/gwyn/no-excuses-bc4152fb mentions that the founder was inspired by other schools: High Tech High and Expeditionary Learning.
Lots of focus on <how to teach/showcase student work>.
The founder <Gwyn ap Harri> is quite dirty mouthed, which is also cool.
<Ciro Santilli> tried to contact them in 2021 at: https://twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1448924419016036353 and on website contact form to see if we could do some project together, but no reply.
= Gwyn ap Harri
{c}
{parent=XP School}
https://twitter.com/gwynap
= U-Math
{c}
{parent=Innovative high school}
{title2=UK}
{wiki}
= Dan Abramson
{c}
{parent=U-Math}
Dan, if you ever <Google> yourself here, please contact <Ciro Santilli>: <contact>{full} to do something with <OurBigBook.com>. Cheers.
= Innovative university course
{parent=Innovative school}
= Gallatin School of Individualized Study
{c}
{parent=Innovative university course}
{tag=New York University}
{tag=Gallatin School of Individualized Study}
{wiki}
This one has <students must have a flexible choice of what to learn> on the name! Sounds interesting!
= Molecular Sciences Course of the University of São Paulo
{parent=Innovative university course}
{tag=Good}
{title2=Curso de Ciências Moleculares}
{title2=CCM}
http://www.cecm.usp.br/
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curso_de_Ciências_Moleculares
Good <Portuguese (language)> overview: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172017000300301&lng=pt&tlng=pt
A fantastic sounding full time 4-year course that any student could transfer to called that teaches various <natural science> topics, notably <mathematics>, <physics>, <chemistry> and <molecular biology>.
Many past students Ciro talked to however share a common frustration with the course: in the first 2 years at least, the "basic cycle", you have infinitely many courses, and no time to study, and <students must have a flexible choice of what to learn>[no choice of what to study], it is only in the latter 2 years (the advanced cycle) that you get the choices.
Also, if you get low grades in a single subject, your out. And <exams are useless> of course.
Here's a <Quora> question in <Portuguese (language)> about the course: https://pt.quora.com/Como-funciona-o-tal-do-curso-secreto-da-USP[], the only decent answer so far being: https://pt.quora.com/Como-funciona-o-tal-do-curso-secreto-da-USP/answer/Victor-Soares-31[]. Very disappointing to hear.
On the advanced cycle, you have a lot of academic freedom. You are basically supposed to pick a research project with an advisor and go for it, with a small amount of mandatory course hours. Ciro was told in 2022 that you can even have advisors from other universities or industry, and that it is perfectly feasible to take courses in another university and validate the course hours later on. Fantastic!!!
Students from the entire <University of São Paulo> can apply to transfer to it only after joining the university, with the guarantee that they can go back to their original courses if they don't adapt to the new course, which is great!
Not doing it is one of <Ciro Santilli>'s regrets in life, see also: <don't be a pussy>.
Around 2007, they were in a really shady building of the University, but when Ciro checked in 2021, they had apparently moved to a shiny new entrepreneurship-focused building. Fantastic news!!!
This place has one of the best changes of spawning the first <Brazilian> <Nobel Prize> or <unicorn (startup)>.
One of the <Brazilians> who came to <École Polytechnique> together with Ciro was from this course. The fact that he is one of the most intelligent people Ciro knows gave further credit to that course in his eyes.
= Independent programming school
{parent=Innovative school}
= Independent programming schools
{synonym}
= 42
{disambiguate=school}
{parent=Independent programming school}
{wiki}
No teachers, no courses, no tuition fees. Yes please!!! By <Xavier Niel>.
= Recurse Center
{c}
{parent=Independent programming school}
{wiki}
= Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
{parent=Education}
{wiki}
= STEM
{c}
{synonym}
{title2}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOBlvvunIvE]
{title=Alex Jones Justin Bieber Rant}
= Education level
{parent=Education}
= K-12
{c}
{parent=Education level}
{wiki=K–12}
= Primary school
{parent=K-12}
{title2=4-11}
{wiki}
= Secondary school
{parent=K-12}
{title2=12-18}
{wiki}
= High school
{synonym}
\Include[university]{parent=education}
= Master of Science
{c}
{parent=Education level}
{wiki}
= Academia
{parent=Education}
{wiki=Academy}
= Academic
{synonym}
= Academia is broken
{parent=Academia}
{tag=Education is broken}
{wiki}
= Academia is so broken
{synonym}
Sometimes <Ciro Santilli> regrets not having done a <PhD>. But this section makes him feel better about himself. To be fair, part of the merit is on him, part of the reason he didn't move on was the strong odour of bullshit oozing down to Masters level. A good PhH might have opened interesting job opportunities however, given that you <Students must have a flexible choice of what to learn>[don't really learn anything useful before that point in your education].
https://twitter.com/togelius/status/1584611702691483648[]:
> The "real world" is full of people who couldn't make it in academia.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOs-frRfa4&t=1307s]
{title=I failed in academia by <Andy Stapleton> (2021)}
{description=
* <publish or perish>
}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytax5-2cYSk]
{title=6 Dirty Tactics Found In Academia & Universities by <Andy Stapleton> (2022)}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9CyWIvQt2o]
{title=Rise to the Top: The Habits and Mindset of Top 0.1% PhD Students by <Andy Stapleton> (2023)}
\Image[https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd030909s.gif]
{title=Profzi scheme by <PhD Comics>}
{description=
A Ponzi scheme that trains people in new skills is not necessarily a terrible thing. It is a somewhat more useful version than standard exam based education.
Perhaps the problem is "forcing" 35 year olds to go down that path when they might also want to have boring stuff like families and security.
If people could get to the <PhD> level much, much sooner, it wouldn't be as obscene: <students must be allowed to progress as fast as they want>{full}.
}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxB3yy2H7j4]
{title=The broken system at the heart of Academia by Peter Judo (2023)}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8]
{title=My dream died, and now I'm here by <#Sabine Hossenfelder> (2024)}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2IKHScT7TA]
{title=I left academia. Here's why. by Jared Henderson}
= Academia job rumor milll
{parent=Academia is broken}
* https://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php epic
= Andy Stapleton
{c}
{parent=Academia is broken}
https://www.youtube.com/@DrAndyStapleton
= Publish or perish
{parent=Academia is broken}
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-02/one-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-rafael-luque-suspended-without-pay-for-13-years.html
2023:
> One of the world’s most cited scientists, Rafael Luque, suspended without pay for 13 years
The prolific chemist, who has published a study every 37 hours this year
You can't apparently fire someone in academia!
> Rafael Luque, has been suspended without pay for the next 13 years
= Academic fraud
{parent=Academia is broken}
{wiki}
= Academic misconduct
{synonym}
= Jan Hendrik Schön
{c}
{parent=Academic fraud}
= Schön scandal
{c}
{parent=Jan Hendrik Schön}
{wiki=Schön_scandal}
One is reminded of <Nick Leeson>.
One things must be said: the root cause of all of this is the <replication crisis>.
This is why he managed to go on for so long.
People felt it was normal to have to try for one or two years to replicate a paper.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64]
{title=The man who almost faked his way to a <Nobel Prize> by BobbyBroccoli (2021)}
{description=Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64&list=PLAB-wWbHL7Vsfl4PoQpNsGp61xaDDiZmh&index=1}
= Research group
{parent=Academia}
{wiki}
= Principal investigator
{parent=Research group}
{title2=PI}
{wiki}
= Academic publishing
{parent=Academia}
{tag=Publishing}
{wiki}
= Research paper
{synonym}
{title2}
<Closed access academic journals are evil>.
= Academic publishing is broken
{parent=Academic publishing}
{tag=Academia is broken}
* https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-peer-review The rise and fall of peer review by Adam Mastroianni (2022)
One of the most beautiful things is how they paywall even <public domain> works. E.g. here: https://www.nature.com/articles/119558a0 was published in 1927, and is therefore in the public domain as of 2023. But it is of course just paywalled as usual throughout 2023. There is zero incentive for them to open anything up.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM91MXgfmLc]
{title=What they don't tell you about <academic publishing> by <Andy Stapleton> (2021)}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xgbRxA_7DI]
{title=The publishing scandal happening right now by <Andy Stapleton> (2023)}
{description=TOOD get the name of the academic who quit.}
= Academic journal
{parent=Academic publishing}
{wiki}
= Impact factor
{parent=Academic journal}
{wiki}
This metric is so dumb! It only helps maintain existing closed journals closed! Why not just do a <PageRank> on the articles themselve instead? Like the <h-index> does for authors? That would make so much more sense!
= Preprint
{parent=Academic journal}
{wiki}
= Peer review
{parent=Academic journal}
{wiki}
= Peer reviewed paper
{synonym}
= List of academic journals
{parent=Academic journal}
{wiki}
= Cell
{disambiguate=journal}
{c}
{parent=List of academic journals}
{tag=Journal by Elsevier}
{wiki}
= American academic journal
{parent=Academic journal}
= Science
{disambiguate=journal}
{c}
{parent=American academic journal}
{wiki}
= British academic journal
{parent=Academic journal}
= Nature
{disambiguate=journal}
{c}
{parent=British academic journal}
{title2=1869-}
{wiki}
Ended up under <Springer> in 2015 after a massive merger.
= German physics journal
{parent=Academic journal}
{tag=Physics journal}
= Session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin
{parent=German physics journal}
{title2=Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin}
Publications by the <Prussian Academy of Sciences>.
Links to their publications: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Sitzungsberichte_der_K%C3%B6niglich_Preu%C3%9Fischen_Akademie_der_Wissenschaften_zu_Berlin
Notable papers:
* <Gravity and electricity by Hermann Weyl (1918)>
= Annalen der Physik
{c}
{parent=German physics journal}
{title2=Annals of Physics}
{title2=1799-}
{title2=AdP}
{wiki}
This was the God <OG> physics journal of the early 20th century, before the <Nazis> fucked German science back to the <Middle Ages>!
Notable papers:
* <Annus Mirabilis papers>
= Zeitschrift für Physik
{c}
{parent=German physics journal}
{title2=Journal for Physics}
{title2=1920-1997}
{wiki}
Belongs to <Springer>, so you can still find papers under paywalls on their website.
Notable papers:
* <quantum mechanical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations by Heisenberg (1925)> on volume 33
= Academic paper
{parent=Academic publishing}
{wiki}
= Paper
{synonym}
= Academic paper database
{parent=Academic paper}
By "Academic paper database" we mean a database that collects paper metadata such as authors and <citations>, but not necessarily the full article content.
<Academia is so broken> that there isn't even one be-all and end-all database of:
* all papers by a given author
* all <citations> of a given paper
It's <closed access academic journals are evil> to the extreme.
= ORCID
{c}
{parent=Academic paper database}
{wiki}
= Open academic paper database
{parent=Academic paper database}
By "open" we also mean that you can download their database locally and that it has an open license, not just free access.
TODO evaluate:
* https://www.crossref.org/[]. No papers by author attempt unless they have <ORCID>: https://community.crossref.org/t/get-all-works-of-a-particular-author-without-orcid/3751[] so what's the point of this project? https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/[] this Funder registry thing sounds cool though.
= PubMed
{c}
{parent=Open academic paper database}
{wiki}
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
This amazing data source contains both:
* all papers by author
* papers cited by papers
Full database download is described at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/download/
The only problem with it is scope, being <life sciences>-only.
= The Academic Family Tree
{c}
{parent=Open academic paper database}
E.g. list of papers by <Isidor Isaac Rabi> which includes <A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment>.
But unfortunately they don't have paper to paper citations.
https://neurotree.org/neurotree/faq.php[] explains that you have to contact an admin to download the database, kind of sad:
> How can I export tree data for my own analysis?
Registered users should contact the site administrator (admin at neurotree dot org) for instructions on how to export data from the tree database.
That page also explains how they disambiguate authors with the same name:
> How do you identify researchers' publications?
Publications data are drawn from two databases: Medline and <Scopus>. Because of the large number of researchers with the same name, a disambiguation algorithm is required to accurately link researchers to papers they have authored. We match authors to papers using a two-step process. First, we identify candidate publications based on a simple string match between researcher name and the author list. Second, we look for overlap between co-authors and other individuals in the researcher's mentor network (trainees, mentors, collaborators, etc), and label publications with overlap as high-probability matches. Thus a complete family tree is likely to produce more accurate publication matches.
= Free academic paper database
{parent=Academic paper database}
These are free to query, but you can't download their database. For those that allow database download see: <Open academic paper database>.
= Google Scholar
{c}
{parent=Free academic paper database}
{tag=Google product}
{wiki}
Does this contain any structured data? E.g. can you list all papers by a given author besides just searching and hoping there are no <homonyms>?
= Closed academic paper database
{parent=Academic paper database}
= Scopus
{c}
{parent=Closed academic paper database}
{wiki}
= Web of Science
{c}
{parent=Closed academic paper database}
{wiki}
= Review article
{parent=Academic paper}
{wiki}
= Review paper
{synonym}
= Citation
{parent=Academic paper}
{wiki}
= Academic publisher
{parent=Academic publishing}
{wiki}
<Closed access academic journals are evil>.
= Elsevier
{c}
{parent=Academic publisher}
{wiki}
= Journal by Elsevier
{parent=Elsevier}
= Springer Science+Business Media
{c}
{parent=Academic publisher}
{wiki}
= Springer
{c}
{synonym}
= Wiley
{disambiguate=publisher}
{c}
{parent=Academic publisher}
{wiki}
= Wiley
{synonym}
{title2}
= Open access academic publisher
{parent=Academic publisher}
{tag=Good}
= eLife
{c}
{parent=Open access academic publisher}
{wiki}
= MDPI
{c}
{parent=Open access academic publisher}
{wiki}
= Novel result
{parent=Academic publishing}
{wiki}
= Novel research
{synonym}
= Open access
{parent=Academic publishing}
{wiki}
= Closed access
{parent=Open access}
{wiki}
= Paywall
{parent=Closed access}
{wiki}
= Paywalled
{synonym}
= Closed access academic journal
{parent=Closed access}
{tag=Academia is broken}
= Closed access academic journals are evil
{parent=Closed access academic journal}
{tag=Evil}
Fuck <closed access academic journals are evils>.
You are nothing but useless leeches in the <Internet> age.
You must go bankrupt all of you, ASAP.
Fuck <Elsevier>, fuck <Springer>, and fuck all the like.
Research paid with taxpayer money must be made available for free.
Researchers and reviewers all work for peanuts, while academic publishers get money for doing the work that an algorithm could do. <OurBigBook.com>.
When Ciro learned URLs such as https://www.nature.com/articles/181662a0 log you in automatically by <IP>, his <mind blew>! The level of institutionalization of this theft is off the charts! The institutionalization of theft is also clear from article prices, e.g. 32 dollars for a 5 page article.
Long live the <Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz (2008)>.
Key <physics> papers from the 50's are still <copyright> encumbered as of 2020, see e.g. <Lamb-Retherford experiment>. Authors and reviewers got nothing for it. Something is wrong.
Infinite list of other people:
* https://blog.machinezoo.com/public-domain-theft by Robert Važan:
> Scientific journals are perhaps one of the most damaging IP rackets. Scientists are funded by governments to do research and publish papers. Reviews of these papers are done by other publicly funded scientists. Even paper selection and formatting for publication is done by scientists. So what do journals actually do? Nearly nothing.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukAkG6c_N4M]
{title=Academic Publishing by Dr. Glaucomflecken (2022)}
= Teaching statement
{parent=Academia}
Part of the motivation letter required by some <American universities> explaining how amazing of a teacher you are, e.g.: https://wstein.org/job/Teaching/index.html
= Doctor of Philosophy
{parent=Academia}
{tag=Education level}
{wiki}
= PhD
{c}
{synonym}
{title2}
= DPhil
{c}
{parent=Doctor of Philosophy}
{tag=Oxford slang}
Short for <Doctor of Philosophy>, it's how some weird places like the <University of Oxford> say <PhD>. In <Oxford> they also analogously say <MPHil>.
= PhD thesis
{c}
{parent=Doctor of Philosophy}
= All but dissertation
{parent=PhD thesis}
{title2=ABD}
{wiki}
= Rebel without a PhD
{parent=Doctor of Philosophy}
This section is about hardcore people who don't have a <PhD>.
= Nobel Prize winner without a PhD
{parent=Rebel without a PhD}
Notably in <STEM>, not so interested in literature of course:
* https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/mv85av/has_anybody_without_a_phd_ever_won_the_nobel/
* https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-ever-won-a-Nobel-Prize-without-a-PhD
* https://groups.google.com/g/diybio/c/SiBRwxVkZmc?pli=1
Here's a <SPARQL> sketch for <Wikidata> that can be run at https://query.wikidata.org/[]. It gathers all the relevant data, but TODO we don't know how to do the proper query yet:
``
# List of living Nobel Laureates sorted by date of birth
SELECT DISTINCT ?recipient ?recipientLabel $birthDate ?awardLabel ?nobelDate ?educatedAtLabel ?academicDegree ?academicDegreeLabel ?doctorateDate
WHERE {
?recipient wdt:P31 wd:Q5 ; # recepient is human (Peace prize can go to organizations)
wdt:P569 ?birthDate ;
p:P166 ?awardStat . # recepient was awarded something
?awardStat ps:P166 ?award .
?award wdt:P279* wd:Q7191 . # received any subclass of nobel prize (physics, chemistry, etc.)
?awardStat pq:P585 ?nobelDate .
?recipient p:P69 ?recipientEducatedAt .
?recipientEducatedAt ps:P69 ?educatedAt .
?recipientEducatedAt pq:P512 ?academicDegree .
?academicDegree wdt:P279* wd:Q849697 .
OPTIONAL{ ?recipientEducatedAt pq:P582 ?doctorateDate . }
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" . }
}
ORDER BY ASC(?birthDate) ASC(?nobelDate) ASC(?awardLabel)
``
= Learned society
{parent=Education}
{wiki}
= American learned society
{parent=Learned society}
= American Physical Society
{c}
{parent=American learned society}
{wiki}
= Reviews of Modern Physics
{c}
{parent=American Physical Society}
{tag=Academic journal}
{title2=1929-}
{wiki}
= National Academy of Sciences
{c}
{parent=American learned society}
{wiki}
= British learned society
{c}
{parent=Learned society}
= Institute of Physics
{c}
{parent=British learned society}
= Physics World
{c}
{parent=Institute of Physics}
Magazine of the <Institute of Physics>.
= Royal Society
{c}
{parent=British learned society}
{wiki}