Never in the history of humankind has there been such a rapid proliferation of novel ideas and the fuel behind this inventive fire can be summed up in one word ~ Access.
Today's elementary school children have access to more quality information at the click of a button than last centuries scholars could hope to find in a lifetime.
For example, "The Darwin Project" just yesterday released 90,000 pages of original drafts, sketches, and photographs written in the hand of the father of evolutionary theory.
This release makes his private papers, mountains of notes, experiments, and research behind his world-changing publications available to the world for free," John van Wyhe, director of the project, told Reuters. "His publications have always been available in the public sphere--but these papers have until now only been accessible to scholars."
Click here to access these documents.
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Friday, April 18, 2008
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