A big merger is announced in publishing, and a nice explanation of the misinterpretations of that article on random mutations and cancer from Science. Also, some thoughts on artificial intelligence that make you go hmm, and more…
- Susan Gubar’s latest post; Living with cancer: Coming to Terms discusses the limited language surrounding cancer and has been getting some well deserved attention on social media.
- There is a big merger on the horizon in scientific publishing. It was announced on January 15 that pending approval, Nature’s parent company (Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) will essentially bring together Springer and Scientific American. The story was covered by Reuters, The NY Times, etc. Here is an item from Nature News and this is what the Springer site has to offer. I am especially interested to see how this unfolds and what it will mean for the scientific community as touched on in TeleRead.
- The Cancer Letter had this explainer on how the recent paper in Science involving mathematics and mutations was misreported in the media as “bad luck”.
- In Soft Artificial Intelligence is Suddenly Everywhere, (on the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal blog) a former IBM staffer weighs in on a recent Vanity Fair article by Kurt Anderson, Enthusiasts and Skeptics Debate Artificial Intelligence, and points out how many aspects of our lives these types of technologies are already a part of.