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Wednesday, February 8, 2006
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The Creative Commons licences got a boost in Finland on the highest government level, as the Information Society Council, chaired by Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, released their report on improvement in productivity by increased utilisation of ICT. A strong suggestion of the council is to promote sharing of information by using Creative Commons licenses. The recommendation is to use CC extensively in the public sector and in non-profit organizations. This is a potentially revolutionary recommendation. Currently there a lot of obstacles in licensing databases and publications for research purposes, for example in geosciences and linguistics, although the material in question was produced by using state funds.
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Parasite infection from cat shit linked to schizophrenia: "Science Daily reports that researchers at Imperial College London have published a study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B which links Toxoplasma gondii, a parasitic protozoa which as part of its life cycle is excreted within cat feces, to schizophrenia." [kuro5hin.org]
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Scientific brain linked to autism: "Highly analytical couples, such as scientists, may be more likely to produce children with autism, an expert has argued. [...] Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, of the University of Cambridge, said the phenomenon might help explain the recent rise in diagnoses."
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