"The only art form that Americans have invented, that will commend us down through the years to posterity, is a music born primarily in a community that has the historical memory of being unfree is a supposedly free land" - Ken Burns
edryd
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Well considering it's written in English I doubt Russians are their target audience.
Article about how important open access science is, behind a paywall...
arXiv is simply amazing though, I'm a physics PhD student and I've never had a problem reading a paper because every physics paper is available for free for anyone on arXiv.
The US is just the most "successful" product of European colonialism and imperialism after all.
It has already been happening for several years now, it's just accelerated since Trump. Even before his first term there was a "negative brain drain" of educated workers no longer coming into the US because the benefits (paid time off, health care, etc) are so much worse compared to other countries, even when considering the higher pay. America used to rely on a steady stream of incoming highly educated workers.
But now there is a huge amount of well established academics leaving for Canada, EU, or anywhere else that will pay them. I work in a physics department at a large R1 university in a very liberal state, and we are losing 4 (that I know of) high regarded professors just this year alone moving to other countries.
The brain drain is here, and won't be reversing course even if Trump suddenly disappears. We would have to completely change how we reward work and our failing healthcare system for anything to change.
It's almost as if racism is inherently illogical.
Envy has existed far longer than social media, none of these things would go away if social media doesn't exist. Social media just amplifies it.
Comparison has always been the thief of joy.
Just because something might be hard means we should give up before even trying?