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*Richard Lewontin/Richard Levins/Stephen Rose/Leon Kamin:
libcom arrow for bullet points Dialectical Biologist - Lewontin/Levins
libcom arrow for bullet points Not in Our Genes - Lewontin/Rose/Kamin
libcom arrow for bullet points Towards A Liberatory Biology - Rose, Ed.
libcom arrow for bullet points The Making of Memory - Rose
libcom arrow for bullet points The Science and Politics of I.Q. - Kamin
libcom arrow for bullet points The Conscious Brain - Rose

Scientists challenge copyright regulations

Last month a group of US physicists challenged copyright regulations that placed restriction on sharing their work.

A group of physicists last month challenged the American Physical Society after the APS withdrew two articles, the authors of which indicated an intention to publish some of the work on online-encyclopaedia Wikipedia

The commoditization of science

Commodity double helix

Ecologist Richard Levins and geneticist Richard Lewontin argue that modern science has been fully incorporated into the process of capitalism, and is subject to the same conditions as any other commodity.

They discuss the implications this has for scientific research, and the influence of bourgeois ideology on the thinking of scientists. The essay is taken from their 1985 book, The Dialectical Biologist.

1973: The Skylab 4 mutiny

Skylab 4

A brief account of the 24-hour mutiny during the Skylab 4 mission in 1973/4 triggered by the astronauts' complaints of excessive workloads.

Class war in space - The Skylab 4 mutiny

Kropotkin was no crackpot - Stephen Jay Gould

Well-known evolutionary biologist/science historian Stephen Jay Gould defends Kropotkin's famous thesis that co-operation and mutual aid are at least as important as competition in an evolutionary sense.

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