THUNDER: helping underfunded NPO’s distribute electronic resources

Helping Volunteer Translators, Fostering Language Resources

This paper introduces a website called Minna no Hon’yaku (MNH, “Translation for All”), which hosts online volunteer translators. Its core features are (1) a set of translation aid tools, (2) high quality, comprehensive language resources, and (3) the legal sharing of translations. As of May 2010, there are about 1200 users and 4 groups registered to MNH. The groups using it include such major N...

Gathering thunder

It’s common to accompany the rollout of a new biomedical journal with an explanation for its coming into being, usually by suggesting there’s an unmet need, despite the panoply of existing journals. I’m not going to do that, at least not exactly. The biomedical literature is almost unimaginably vast already, much more than even the most diligent speed-reading scholar-who-listens-to-science-blog...

To distribute or not to distribute?

In this paper we address some central problems of combination of logics through the study of a very simple but highly informative case, the combination of the logics of disjunction and conjunction. At first it seems that it would be very easy to combine such logics, but the following problem arises: if we combine these logics in a straightforward way, distributivity holds. On the other hand, di...

Learning the thunder.

Gifts from the Thunder Beings