I decided to make a quick summary of facts about Sci-Hub and myself, because in our times you cannot fully…
Access to knowledge is a human right
Access to knowledge is a human right. That was the idea Sci-Hub was fighting since 2011. In 2015, I got…
How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub
A new article was published in The Chronicle about me running Sci-Hub, a project dedicated to providing free access to academic journals all over the world. Their goal is to present Sci-Hub and its author Alexandra Elbakyan as some kind of malign project.
Why Sci-Hub is illegal, and what you can do about it
Sci-Hub is oftenly presented as an illegal way to get access to paywalled research papers, and hence, in some way…
Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: part 3
The final set of corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub
Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: second part, the Dynasty foundation
That is a second part of corrections to The Verge article on Sci-Hub, that will be devoted to the conflict…
Corrections to The Verge article about Sci-Hub: part 1
It took quite a time to proof-read that very long The Verge article about Sci-Hub, Open Access and about me…
Some facts on Sci-Hub that Wikipedia gets wrong
(and some history of Sci-Hub too) Like most people, I routinely use Wikipedia to lookup information. Sometimes however, the information…
Sci-Hub is a goal, changing the system is a method
Last weeks, I read many varying opinions on my website. What was especially surpising for me is that there are…
Why Sci-Hub is the true solution for Open Access: reply to criticism
This article is to reply to some points made by publishers as well as some librarians who don’t like what…
Collective Consciousness : implications for Immortality and Spiritual Freedom
A few weeks ago I’ve been interviewed for H+ Magazine on my project of re-engineering human consciousness with new technologies…
Some notes on Contec KT88 EEG amplifier
I’ve just posted that old program to read data from KT88-1016 amplifier here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/conteckt88/files/ – look for file named eegRead.zip…
“Mind implants” or how to expand consciousness using new technologies
Slides for the talk I gave at Humanity+ Summit 2010 “Brain-Computer Interfacing, Consciousness, and the Global Brain: Towards the Technological…
Consciousness in mixed systems: merging artificial and biological minds via Brain-Machine Interface
Here the poster I presented at the Toward a Science of Consciousness 2010 conference. I propose a new approach for building…
Toward a science of consciousness 2010 conference proceedings!
I was one of those happy participants of TSC 2010 that took place in Tucson, Arizona past week. It is…
Some updates…
The last few months were too overwhelmed with events, projects and laziness… But now I’m back to blogging 🙂 Regarding…
Brain-computer interfaces, hypnosis, Mind Machines, synchrony, migraine and publicity of science
Francois Vialatte is a researcher at Brain Science Institute RIKEN. He works on deciphering brain signals for creating better Brain-Computer…
Identify person by unique brain activity
“Brain-wave signatures, represented as the EEG signals of a person … are different from one individual to another, even when…
DIY EEG Devices or Cheap EEG – 2
As blog’s stats shows a lot of us today are dreaming of a cheap EEG device – most traffic is…
Downloadable EEG data
I was hunting for such databases for a while while preparing my project. Here is what I collected.
Writing your own soft for a really cheap EEG hardware
(A signal shown here was taken while twisting electrodes in hands. This is not EEG =) As a geek I’ve…