Last week, the White House issued a guidance memo on Open Access, to not quite as much fanfare as could have been expected, and causing (so far) surprisingly muted controversy. The memo requires US federal agencies that fund research to ensure that any publicly funded peer-reviewed scholarly publications “are made freely available and publicly accessible…
Moralizing Gods Redux
In 2019, Whitehouse et al. ignited a relative firestorm of controversy around the Big Gods Hypothesis of social complexification. The Big Gods Hypothesis holds that belief in moralizing big gods allowed, or perhaps even drove the significant increases in the scale and complexity of human societies that we see in many places throughout the past…
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