Like the crew on the starship Enterprise, humanists are exploring a new frontier of the scholarly universe: space.
Those familiar with Thompson's historical writings recognized in his peace activism the same concern that had preoccupied him throughout his scholarly life: creating a space for grassroots human agency and for moral dissidence against the arrogance of the powerful.
(For three decades, The Times has given me leeway to discuss taboo slang terms in this space under scholarly, smirk-free cover; one distressed copy editor who felt I was getting away with murder suggested my telephone extension be changed to 007).
And she reached across set categories and conventions — sexual, political, scholarly — to explore the often strange spaces in between.
Just this month, mathematicians used blogs and wikis to evaluate a supposed mathematical proof in the space of a week — the scholarly equivalent of warp speed.
There are many new types of scholarly content accumulating in the common digital space including data-sets, videos, audio, maps, and text embedded in tools and applications.
More wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs are beginning to put their own money into institutes, which will reduce reliance on government largesse for scholarly research, and perhaps open up more space for independent public policy advice.
3): You appear to be attempting to create fraternal twins by cutting the baby in half — advocating that, because of "space concerns," ideas in printed scholarly work be given fewer attributions than online versions of the same articles.
This is a major scholarly work and there is not enough space here to do justice to the range of material covered.
However, Petroski notes that Ramelli's illustration lacks space for writing and other scholarly work, and that the "fanciful wheel" may not have been appropriate for any activity beyond reading.
