Few things are as dangerous as economists with physics envy

By John Rapley

THIS IS AN ARTICLE REPUBLISHED FROM AEON Magazine The author, John Rapley is a political economist at the University of Cambridge, as well as a journalist and co-creator of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute in Jamaica. He is the author of Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a Religion and How it all Went Wrong (2017).

Two questions: is it good or bad that professional athletes earn 400 times what nurses do, and is string theory a dead end? Each question goes to the heart of its discipline. Yet while you probably answered the first, you’d hold an opinion on the prospects of string theory only if you’ve studied physics.

Installing DSpace 6.x (6.2) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

This is tested to work on a Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS version on a physical machine and on a VirtualBox VM (2 slow cores and 2G RAM).

The development server was built on a basic Ubuntu Server installation with only OpenSSH installed beyond the basic conf.

Wordcamp Athens 2016 (19-20 Nov)

“WordCamp Athens 2016 is the greatest technology event of the year in Athens, about WordPress and internet. For the first time ever, people in Greece will have the chance to meet the WordPress world through a two day conference, which will take place at Technopolis City of Athens at November 19th and 20th.

WordCamp Athens is being organized by volunteers from the WordPress Greek Community, a non profit organization which aims to promote WordPress in Greece.”

Will be there 🙂

The Citizens’ Debate on Space for Europe

“Over 2000 citizens selected to reflect the socio-demographic diversity of their country will debate on space matters during a day-long meeting. In order to consolidate the 22 national results reports into one European report”

More here: http://www.citizensdebate.space/en_GB

 

Chomsky and Varoufakis in NY Public Library (April 2016)

Yanis Varoufakis and Noam Chomsky talk in the New York Public Library in April 2016. An interesting conversation and analysis.

Project Committee :-)

Publish or Perish or …

Comedy clip by John Oliver exposing bloated or bogus science in news.

Kohacon 2016 in Thessaloniki

The first days of summer will be very interesting. The conference of the Open Source KOHA LMS system is going to take place in Thessaloniki, from 30 May to June 4, 2016. More information and Live streaming is available here.

The Greece of Stars [video]

A stunning TimeLapse Collection in 4K Ultra HD by Theofanis Matsopoulos.

More at his blog.