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    1. You said the difference between your commonplace and a Zettelkasten was form and binding? Could you expand on your set up/process? It looks like your cards are loose like a zettel, but I do see a to-do tab which isn’t zettel-y.

      reply to u/LowkeyHooligan at https://reddit.com/r/commonplacebook/comments/1gdpiis/space_for_a_commonplace/

      I'm not talking about my specific practice but commonplacing and Zettelkasten writ large. Early users of slips in the tradition of ars excerpendi were commonplacing, they were just putting their excerpts onto slips (or scraps) of paper rather than in a notebook. Far too many think the idea of Zettelkasten was "invented" by Niklas Luhmann when in fact the tradition goes back to at least Konrad Gessner in the 16th century. There was absolutely nothing innovative about Luhmann's Zettelkasten—even his numbering system was widely used by the mid 1910s. Early Zettelkasten (aka card indexes in English) were commonplaces, just done on slips of paper rather than bound "slips" in book format.

      The more recent "Zettelkasten Method" practitioners, (roughly after June 2013) have largely omitted the centuries-long intellectual history of their practice and are guilty of too much Luhmann worship. On the other hand, they hew heavily toward the minimalist approach and don't decorate their work with stickers, drawings, or other art which seems to have come into fashion in the social media era. This is what I would call "drolleries on acid" without the benefit of knowing about the tradition of ars memoria.

      My practice with these goes well beyond commonplacing. Most early 20th century card indexes were used for a variety of purposes beyond commonplacing too including indexing, tickler files, databases, rolodexes, etc. What you're describing sounds more like my modified Memindex practice (https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/). You'll find more on my particular practice and the historical practices of others at: https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/

      For early 20th century uses, try: - Kaiser, Julius Otto. 1908. Card System at the Office. London: Vacher and Sons. http://archive.org/details/cardsystematoffi00kaisrich. - Kaiser, Julius Otto. 1911. Systematic Indexing. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. http://archive.org/details/systematicindexi00kaisuoft. - Duffield, David Walter, and Various. 1951. Progressive Indexing and Filing. 5th ed. New York, NY: Remington Rand Inc. http://archive.org/details/progressiveindex0000varo.

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    1. Voici un résumé du document:

      • Le document prĂ©sente les standards pour l'Ă©ducation sexuelle en Europe, Ă©laborĂ©s par le Bureau rĂ©gional de l'OMS pour l'Europe et le BZgA, en collaboration avec un groupe d'experts de diffĂ©rents pays et disciplines.
      • Le document dĂ©finit l'Ă©ducation sexuelle comme une approche holistique qui vise Ă  informer les enfants et les jeunes sur tous les aspects de la sexualitĂ© et Ă  dĂ©velopper leurs compĂ©tences, leurs attitudes et leurs valeurs pour vivre une sexualitĂ© positive et responsable.
      • Le document expose les arguments, les principes, les objectifs et les partenaires de l'Ă©ducation sexuelle, ainsi que les caractĂ©ristiques et les exigences de base pour sa mise en Ɠuvre, notamment dans les Ă©coles.
      • Le document propose une matrice qui prĂ©sente les thĂšmes, les informations, les compĂ©tences et les attitudes que l'Ă©ducation sexuelle devrait couvrir pour les diffĂ©rents groupes d'Ăąge, de 0 Ă  15 ans et plus, en tenant compte du dĂ©veloppement psychosexuel de l'enfant et de l'adolescent.
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    1. Though Swintec is profitable, it has slimmed down to about 10 employees from about 85 employees, Mr. Michael says. He says the company sold "thousands and thousands" of typewriters at the peak but declined to be specific. Swintec still sells about 3,000 to 5,000 typewriters a year, to customers including universities, senior centers and state and federal prisons.
  7. Apr 2025
    1. the same name andNational Provider Identifier (NPI) (asrequired to be reported in this final rule)should be used consistently for allpayment lines and any subsequentupdates for the same individual.

      Final rule from the Sunshine act details exactly how the NPI should be leveraged for reporting.

    1. Department of Health and Human ServicesOFFICE OFINSPECTOR GENERALMPROVEMENTS EEDED TOE NSURE P ROVIDERE NUMERATION AND MEDICAREENROLLMENT DATA AREACCURATE , C OMPLETE , ANDONSISTENTDaniel R. LevinsonInspector GeneralMay 2013OEI-07-09-00440I NC

      This is the OIG report on the failings of NPPES.

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    1. 16:30 "But the only fatwa that has, in fact, said that no images of Mohammed are permitted, and that includes Islamic paintings, not just the cartoons, came out in 2013 in Saudi Arabia by a Salafi cleric whose name is Al-Munajid. And there are other fatwas like Asistani, the Shi'i cleric, who says these images are perfectly fine, as long as they're respectful."

      20:00 Fatwas can be issued (like the above) in a vacuum without any real conversation within the Islamic community. Few years back even building a snowman fatwa as haram. Animals are decapitated in Saudi textbooks. People in 20th century having 14th century book that depicts a head, decapitating it (al-ras).

  12. Sep 2024
    1. for - The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability - Camilo Mora et al. - 6th mass extinction - biodiversity loss - question - 2024 - Sept 13 - how do we reconcile climate departure with quantification of earth system boundary biodiversity safe and just limit? - to - climate departure map - map of major cities - 2013 - to - researchgate paper - The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability - 2013 - Camilo Mora et al

      paper details - title: The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability - author: - Camilo Mora, - Abby G. Frazier, - Ryan J. Longman, - Rachel S. Dacks, - Maya M. Walton, - Eric J. Tong, - Joseph J. Sanchez, - Lauren R. Kaiser, - Yuko O. Stender, - James M. Anderson, - Christine M. Ambrosino, - Iria Fernandez-Silva, - Louise M. Giuseffi, - Thomas W. Giambelluca - date - 9 October, 2013 - publication Nature 502, 183-187 (2013) - https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12540 - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12540

      to - https://hyp.is/0BdCglsHEe-2CteEQbOBfw/www.researchgate.net/publication/257598710_The_projected_timing_of_climate_departure_from_recent_variability

      Summary - This is an extremely important paper with a startling conclusion of the magnitude of the social and economic impacts of the biodiversity disruption coming down the pipeline - It is likely that very few governments are prepared to adapt to these levels of ecosystemic disruption - Climate departure is defined as an index of the year when: - The projected mean climate of a given location moves to a state that is - continuously outside the bounds of historical variability - Climate departure is projected to happen regardless of how aggressive our climate mitigation pathway - The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario in the study is RCP85 and leads to a global climate departure mean of 2047 (+/- 14 years s.d.) while - The more aggressive RCP45 scenario (which we are currently far from) leads to a global climate departure mean of 2069 (+/- 18 years s.d.) - So regardless of how aggressive we mitigate, we cannot avoid climate departure. - What consequences will this have on economies around the world? How will we adapt? - The world is not prepared for the vast ecosystem changes, which will reshape our entire economy all around the globe.

      question - 2024 - Sept 13 - how do we reconcile climate departure with quantification of earth system boundary biodiversity safe and just limit? - Annotating the Sept 11, 2024 published Earth Commission paper in Lancet, the question arises: - How do we reconcile climate departure dates with the earth system boundary quantification of safe limits for biodiversity? - There, it is claimed that: - 50 to 60 % of intact nature is required<br /> - https://hyp.is/Mt8ocnIEEe-C0dNSJFTjyQ/www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00042-1/fulltext - a minimum of 20 to 25% of human modified ecosystems is required - https://hyp.is/AKwa4nIHEe-U1oNQDdFqlA/www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00042-1/fulltext - in order to mitigate major species extinction and social disruption crisis - And yet, Mora et al.'s research and subsequent climate departure map shows climate departure is likely to take place everywhere on the globe, with - aggressive RCP decarbonization pathway only delaying climate departure from - Business-As-Usual RCP pathway - by a few decades at most - And this was a 2011 result. 13 years later in 2024, I expect climate departure dates have likely gotten worse and moved closer to the present

      from - Gupta, Joyeeta et al.(2024). A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations. The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 0, Issue 0 - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flanplh%2Farticle%2FPIIS2542-5196(24)00042-1%2Ffulltext&group=world

      to - climate departure map - of major cities of the world - 2013 - https://hyp.is/tV1UOFsKEe-HFQ-jL-6-cw/www.hawaii.edu/news/2013/10/09/study-in-nature-reveals-urgent-new-time-frame-for-climate-change/ - full research paper - researchgate

    1. Both biosphere boundaries

      for - question - earth system boundaries - biodiversity - how do we reconcile these boundaries with climate departure?

      question - earth system boundaries - biodiversity - how do we reconcile these boundaries with climate departure? - Does the term "functional integrity" imply autonomy from climate feedbacks? Obviously, climate feedback plays a huge role in determining biodiversity health - In 2013, Mora et al. found that climate departure, the year in which a climate variable moves out of the historical bounds will occur everywhere on the planet, regardless of an aggressive RCP pathway being taken. In this study, climate departure was found to take place (relative to 2013) - 37.5 years in the future under RCP45, or - 22.5 years in the future under RCP85 - It would seem that the biodiversity boundaries should take into consideration climate departure as species extinction and ecological system disruption is projected to occur, regardless of whether RCP45 or RCP85 is adopted. - Currently, we are still on a Business-As-Usual trajectory, but since 2013, scientific research has moved the danger threshold even lower so climate departure dates are likely even sooner than those calculated in the 2013 Mora paper

      to - Mora, C., Frazier, A., Longman, R. et al. (2013). The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability. Nature 502, 183–187. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12540 - https://hyp.is/3wZrokX9Ee-XrSvMGWEN2g/www.nature.com/articles/nature12540 - Researchgate copy - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F257598710_The_projected_timing_of_climate_departure_from_recent_variability&group=world

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    1. Dueto the cheaper cost of manufacturing in China, manyU.S. companies have outsourced their labor abroad.This has resulted in a massive trade deficit betweenthe U.S. and China and has led to a loss of around 2.4million jobs since 2013, or almost two-thirds of allU.S. manufacturing jobs

      for - stats - US trade deficit with China

      stats US trade deficit with China - Due to the cheaper cost of manufacturing in China, many U.S. companies have outsourced their labor abroad. - This has resulted in - a massive trade deficit between the U.S. and China and - has led to a loss of around 2.4 million jobs since 2013, or - almost two-thirds of all U.S. manufacturing jobs

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    1. Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:11][^1^][1] - [00:34:50][^2^][2] : La vidéo présente une discussion approfondie sur le contrÎle de la pensée dans les sociétés démocratiques, l'influence des médias et des relations publiques, et les idées de Noam Chomsky sur la nature humaine, la créativité et le langage.

      Points saillants : + [00:02:25][^3^][3] ContrĂŽle de la pensĂ©e dans une sociĂ©tĂ© dĂ©mocratique * Chomsky suggĂšre d'examiner les mĂ©dias et les industries des relations publiques + [00:04:05][^4^][4] RĂŽle des mĂ©dias et de l'Ă©ducation * Ils doivent permettre un contrĂŽle significatif du processus politique par le public + [00:05:51][^5^][5] Propagande et dĂ©mocratie * Chomsky compare la propagande en dĂ©mocratie Ă  la violence dans une dictature + [00:07:53][^6^][6] Chomsky sur la communication animale * Discute des limites de la communication avec les animaux et de la nature unique du langage humain + [00:10:16][^7^][7] Nature humaine et langage * Chomsky explore la programmation gĂ©nĂ©tique du langage et la crĂ©ativitĂ© inhĂ©rente + [00:15:17][^8^][8] Critique de la politique amĂ©ricaine * Chomsky est connu pour ses critiques des politiques gouvernementales et de la concentration du pouvoir RĂ©sumĂ© de la vidĂ©o 00:34:53 - 01:05:39: La vidĂ©o discute du modĂšle de propagande dans les mĂ©dias, oĂč Noam Chomsky explique comment le consentement est fabriquĂ© Ă  travers divers filtres institutionnels, influençant la perception publique et marginalisant la dissidence.

      Points saillants: + [00:34:53][^1^][1] ModÚle de propagande * Filtres institutionnels * Médias nationaux comme cadre + [00:37:01][^2^][2] RÎle du New York Times * Influence sur la perception publique * Création de l'histoire + [00:42:02][^3^][3] ContrÎle des médias * Propriété des entreprises * Exclusion des voix dissidentes + [00:47:37][^4^][4] Activisme politique de Chomsky * Décision consciente * Conséquences personnelles + [00:50:37][^5^][5] Défauts de la société * Nécessité de nouvelles formes d'action * Résistance directe et non-participation + [00:58:39][^6^][6] Guerre du Golfe et médias * Exclusion d'options pacifiques * Subservience des médias Résumé de la vidéo [01:05:42][^1^][1] - [01:34:46][^2^][2]:

      Cette partie de la vidéo discute de la fabrication du consentement et de l'impact des médias sur la perception publique des événements mondiaux, en se concentrant sur des exemples historiques tels que les atrocités au Cambodge et à Timor-Est.

      Points saillants: + [01:05:42][^3^][3] La distraction du public * Utilisation du sport pour crĂ©er des attitudes irrationnelles + [01:07:05][^4^][4] Étude du modĂšle de propagande * Comparaison des rĂ©actions mĂ©diatiques aux atrocitĂ©s + [01:08:01][^5^][5] GĂ©nocide au Cambodge * Couverture mĂ©diatique intense et partiale + [01:09:01][^6^][6] Invasion de Timor-Est * Manque de couverture mĂ©diatique et soutien occidental + [01:22:13][^7^][7] L'importance de la dissidence * Impact des citoyens sur la politique Ă©trangĂšre + [01:33:16][^8^][8] Luttes pour la libertĂ© * Courage des sociĂ©tĂ©s opprimĂ©es et rĂŽle des dissidents

    1. Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:27:47][^2^][2]:

      Cette vidéo présente un débat sur le rÎle des médias et la fabrication du consentement, mettant en vedette le professeur Noam Chomsky. Il discute de la maniÚre dont les médias façonnent la perception publique et marginalisent les opinions dissidentes.

      Points forts: + [00:00:00][^3^][3] RÎle des documentaires * Différences avec les films de fiction * Objectif informatif et éducatif + [00:02:18][^4^][4] Débat sur le consentement fabriqué * Discussion sur la manipulation des médias * Exemples de la couverture médiatique biaisée + [00:06:01][^5^][5] Démocratie et liberté * Importance de soutenir les droits communs * Nécessité de la liberté pour la survie + [00:17:01][^6^][6] Concision dans les médias * Limites de l'expression des opinions complexes * Influence sur la présentation des informations Résumé de la vidéo [00:27:49][^1^][1] - [00:57:50][^2^][2] : Cette partie de la vidéo aborde la controverse entourant Noam Chomsky, notamment ses opinions sur la liberté d'expression et son implication dans la défense des droits civils d'un intellectuel français controversé.

      Points saillants : + [00:28:04][^3^][3] Introduction de Noam Chomsky * PrĂ©sentĂ© comme intellectuel controversĂ© + [00:29:01][^4^][4] DĂ©fense de la libertĂ© d'expression * Chomsky distingue le droit d'exprimer des idĂ©es et les idĂ©es elles-mĂȘmes + [00:30:02][^5^][5] Controverse sur l'Holocauste * Discussion sur la nĂ©gation de l'Holocauste et la libertĂ© acadĂ©mique + [00:31:25][^6^][6] Affaire Robert Faurisson * Chomsky signe une pĂ©tition pour les droits civils de Faurisson + [00:39:15][^7^][7] Impact du militantisme * Chomsky encourage l'action communautaire pour le changement social + [00:44:58][^8^][8] MĂ©dias alternatifs * Importance des mĂ©dias citoyens pour la dĂ©mocratie et l'activisme RĂ©sumĂ© de la vidĂ©o [00:57:55][^1^][1] - [01:12:31][^2^][2]: Part 3 de la vidĂ©o aborde la critique des systĂšmes Ă©conomiques actuels et l'exploration des alternatives anarchistes, en mettant en lumiĂšre des exemples historiques et en discutant de la nĂ©cessitĂ© d'une transformation spirituelle pour un changement social.

      Points forts: + [00:57:55][^3^][3] Critique du capitalisme * Rejet de l'esclavage salarial * Appel Ă  la gestion dĂ©mocratique + [01:00:21][^4^][4] Exemples d'anarchisme * SuccĂšs des kibboutz israĂ©liens * RĂ©volution espagnole de 1936 + [01:02:01][^5^][5] Changement de nature humaine * NĂ©cessaire pour le socialisme libertaire * Conduit Ă  une transformation spirituelle + [01:04:42][^6^][6] Mythes de la civilisation industrielle * Critique de la quĂȘte du gain matĂ©riel * Avertissement sur la durabilitĂ© + [01:06:20][^7^][7] Communication de masse et dĂ©mocratie * Question de la libertĂ© d'expression * Importance pour la survie humaine + [01:09:20][^8^][8] Impact personnel et politique * Influence sur l'engagement politique * RĂ©flexion sur le pouvoir des mĂ©dias

  18. Feb 2024
    1. Does latin really have no synonyms (or pronouns, apparantly)? No-one is ever weaponless, or without excuse, for example. It’s always “absent weapon” and “absent excuse” etc. Is there no verb ‘to be’ in latin? Nobody is Roman, they “stand roman”, they ‘stand’ anything that they might otherwise be. They stand hungry, they stand a senator, and so on. Characters never speak, or say, or tell anything. They only “break words”. Oh, and they all seem to be absent pronouns whenever they stand breaking words.

      The use of "absent" is excessive in the show Spartacus. This, supposedly, is done with intention. It need mimic the Latin language structure. Though, how does absent this and that aid in that?

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    1. Auf der Insel Maui in Hawaii haben Feuer einen großen Teil der alten Stadt Lahaina zerstört und ĂŒber 50 Menschenleben gefordert (Update 15. 8.: mindestens 93 Tote). Eine lang anhaltende Trockenheit hat das Ausbrechen der Feuer an verschiedenen Teilen der Insel erleichtert, StĂŒrme in der Folge des Orkans Dora haben sie verbreitet. In ihrem Ausmaß wird die Katastrophe mit dem Camp Fire verglichen dass 2018 die kalifornische Stadt Paradise zerstörte. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/10/hawaii-fire-kills-people-lahaina-town-maui

  23. Apr 2023
    1. The activity theory for organisations relates to how two different organisational contexts that interact with each other develop and eventually share a common language, culture and environment, in order to reach common goals.

      This could be a good framework for how schools engage with the community to provide opportunities they are not able to otherwise provide for students. The community is a part of the learning process and exposes students to authentic learning opportunities.

    2. students observe scientific processes they normally do not experience at school, and then report on what they have observed; in doing so, they develop skills such as asking questions, scientific reading, organising information and planning a presentation

      Why are these experiences unique to school? Were they industry or research based? Were they looking at specialized equipment?

      For schools, does "out of school learning" mean that students are reaching for things schools cannot provide? Or things they do not provide (choice)?

    3. In addition, many practitioners in the field of informal science learning recognise the need to create productive collaborations between informal science education organisations and schools

      See Esach (2007) for more context of the "edutainment" aspect of informal learning. Is entertaining content/context more important that the educational context? What should schools accept - or reject - from that position?

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    1. https://lifehacker.com/im-ryan-holiday-and-this-is-how-i-work-1485776137

      An influential productivity article from 2013-12-18 that is seen quoted over the blogosphere for the following years that broadened the idea of the commonplace book and the later popularity of the zettelkasten.

      Note that zettelkasten.de was just starting up at about this time period, though it follows the work of Manfred Kuehn's note taking blog.

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    1. E-Learning Implications for Adult Learning

      (Click Download full text to read.) In this brief article, the authors contrast the child and adult learner. Highlighting the adult learner's characteristics, the article further discusses factors that might affect the individual learning style. Furthermore, the authors discuss these styles in the context of eLearning (extravert, introvert, sensory type, intuitive adult, reflexive type, affective type, rational type, and perceptive type). Each learning type and preferred eLearning method is illustrated (Table 1, p. 60). Rationale for the implementation of eLearning is detailed (p. 61). Guidelines for the use of eLearning is discussed. (6/10)

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    1. This page

      This page is the main page through which the other pages are accessed, and to which they redirect when finished. Some pages have directions to the PubMed Commons pages that in 2013 began facilitating the annotation of articles in the bioscience literature. Sadly, this was stopped in 2018, but comments can be retrieved through the Hypothesis site as detailed on my Laboratory Page.

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    1. Page 8

      Jockers talking about the old approach in the 1990s to anecdotal evidence:

      
 in the 1990s, gathering literary evidence meant reading books, noting "things" (a phallic symbol here, a bibliographical reference there, a stylistic flourish, an allusion, and so on) and then interpreting: making sense and arguments out of those observations. Today, in the age of digital libraries and large-scale book-digitization projects, the nature of the "evidence" available to us has changed, radically. Which is not to say that we should no longer read books looking for, or noting, random "things," but rather to emphasize that massive digital corpora offer is unprecedented access to literally record an invite, even demand, a new type of evidence gathering and meaning making. The literary scholar of the 21st-century can no longer be content with anecdotal evidence, with random "things" gathered from a few, even "representative," text. We must strive to understand the things we find interesting in the context of everything else, including a massive possibly "uninteresting" text.

    2. Pages 7 and 8

      Jockers is talking here about Ian Watt’s method in Rise of the Novel

      What are we to do with the other three to five thousand works of fiction published in the eighteenth century? What of the works that Watt did not observe and account for with his methodology, and how are we to now account for works not penned by Defoe, by Richardson, or by Fielding? Might other novelists tell a different story? Can we, in good conscience, even believe that Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding are representative writers? Watt’s sampling was not random; it was quite the opposite. But perhaps we only need to believe that these three (male) authors are representative of the trend towards "realism" that flourished in the nineteenth century. Accepting this premise makes Watts magnificent synthesis into no more than a self-fulfilling project, a project in which the books are stacked in advance. No matter what we think of the sample, we must question whether in fact realism really did flourish. Even before that, we really ought to define what it means "to flourish" in the first place. Flourishing certainly seems to be the sort of thing that could, and ought, to be measured. Watt had no yardstick against which to make such a measurement. He had only a few hundred texts that he had read. Today things are different. The larger literary record can no longer be ignored: it is here, and much of it is now accessible.

  43. Apr 2016
    1. “dead malls,” and you’ll find photo after photo of tiled walkways littered with debris, untended planters near the darkened rest areas for bored dads, and empty indoor storefronts—the discolored shadows of their missing lighted signs lingering like ghosts.

      Here is an interesting mega-mall i have found in china that is now deserted because of online shopping. The plans have even started taking back its land.

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    1. Second,we considered the paper’s 10th-percentilezscore.The left tail allows us to characterize the paper’smore unusual combinations, where novelty mayreside.

      The highest value in the lowest 10% of z-scores in the article.

    2. First, to characterizethe central tendency of a paper’s combinations, weconsidered the paper’smedianzscore

      Median z-score: the middle z score for all the journals cited in the paper. I wonder why median?

    3. Zscoresbelow zero indicate pairs that appear less oftenin the observed WOS than expected by chance,indicating relatively atypical or“novel”pair-ings.

      Interesting! So the more random the pairing appeared the more novel the original paper was deemed to be?

    4. In this study, we examined 17.9 million re-search articles in the Web of Science (WOS) tosee how prior work is combined. We present factsthat indicate (i) the extent to which scientific pa-pers reference novel versus conventional combi-nations of prior work, (ii) the relative impact ofpapers based on the combinations they drawupon, and (iii) how (i) and (ii) are associated withcollaboration

      This is a tall order!

    5. In hisPrincipia,Newton presented his laws of gravitation usingaccepted geometry rather than his newly de-veloped calculus, despite the latter’s impor-tance in developing his insights (22)

      The importance of framing your work in work that has already been done.

    6. The highest-impact science is primarily grounded in exceptionallyconventional combinations of prior work yet simultaneously features an intrusion of unusualcombinations

      It will be interesting to see how they measured this in so many articles.

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