I hope it wasn't inappropriate to add a general "interesting stuff" page here.
I saw http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1121-Crowd-Sourced-Peer-Review-Substitute-or-Supplement.html today and thought it was so relevant to this class I wanted to share it. It discusses the possibility of a crowdsourced peer review system as a parallel alternative to traditional refereed journals.
NYT piece about Nobel laureates receiving notification of having won via phone call http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/science/where-where-you-nobel-prize-call-stories.html.
Artificial intelligence climate bias harm in underrepresented communities, and what needs to be done to counteract this: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-biased-artificial-intelligence-human-climate.html This article discusses the issues caused by the bias that teems through AI models used in the study of climate change, and how through directly involving underrepresented communities the harm can be significantly reduced.
Bohannon (from the Expose article on Open Access Peer Review) also writes (fake) expose on Chocolate helps with your Health