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On the Biomedical Elite: Inequality and Stasis in Scientific Knowledge Production
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)Researchers and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using metrics (from bibliometrics to patent counts), which are core instruments of a longstanding effort to quantify scientific productivity and worth. ... -
On the eclipse of Ajax as a most eligible suitor of Helen
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-06-14)In fragments from Hesiodic poetry, we read that the hero Ajax was one of many heroes who converged on Sparta to compete with each other as rival suitors of a most eligible bride, Helen, daughter of Zeus. Some of these ... -
On the festival of the goddess Hērā at the Hēraion overlooking the Plain of Argos
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On the Idea of Dead Poets as Imagined by T. S. Eliot, Compared With Ideas About Reperformance, Part I
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-04-17) -
On the idea of dead poets as imagined by T. S. Eliot, compared with ideas about reperformance, Part II
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2021-04-24) -
On the Idea of Dead Poets as Imagined by T. S. Eliot, Compared With Ideas About Reperformance, Part III
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On the paraphrase of Iliad 1.012-042 in Plato's Republic 3.393d-394a
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-09-23) -
On the reception of Sappho as a personal experience to be expressed in pictures: examples from two vase paintings produced in classical Athens, fifth century BCE
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-11-06)The two images that I mention in the title of this essay are line drawings of close-ups taken from two separate vase paintings created by an artist known to art historians as the Meidias Painter, whose career as a vase ... -
On the Road to "Pre-K for All": The Launch of UPK in New York City
(Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 2015)Over the spring and summer of 2014, New York City put in place a full-day universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) program. The blistering pace, enormous scale, and administrative complexity of this rollout were all striking: a ... -
On Traces of Hero-Cults for Socrates and Plato
(2015-04-02)I start by citing a most important article by Stephen White: White, S. A. 2000. “Socrates at Colonus: A Hero for the Academy.” Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy (ed. N. D. Smith and P. Woodruff) 151–75. ... -
On Visualizing Heavenly Origins for Particularized Icons in the Greek-Speaking World of Today
(2021-03-27)I recall here the happy occasion of my most recent viewing, in the year 2014, of the famous ancient Myrtiá (Μυρτιά) or ‘Myrtle Tree’ growing on the hallowed grounds of an old monastery, now a nunnery, in Palianí (Παλιανή), ... -
On weaving and sewing as metaphors for ancient Greek verbal arts
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On ‘Connecting the Dots’—metonymically—between a Shield and a Garland Presented to Achilles
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Once again this time in Song 1 of Sappho
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-11-05)I argue here in this posting for 2015.11.05 that the expression dēute (δηὖτε) as used at lines 15 and 16 and18 in Song 1 of Sappho refers not only to some episodically recurrent emotion of love as experienced by the speaker ... -
Open Access
(MIT Press, 2012)The Internet lets us share perfect copies of our work with a worldwide audience at virtually no cost. We take advantage of this revolutionary opportunity when we make our work “open access”: digital, online, free of charge, ... -
Open Access and Copyright
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Open access and quality
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Open access and the Google book settlement
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Open access and the last-mile problem for knowledge
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Open access and the self-correction of knowledge
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2008)