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Three hundred thirty one million, four hundred forty nine thousand, two hundred and eighty one. According to the US Census Bureau, that is total residential population of the United States as of April 1, 2020. That number is a form of data theater.

Statistics, in their original form, is the state’s science. State-istics. The original name, btw, was political arithmetic. Today, we distinguish the state’s statistics by calling them official. These are data in the oldest of senses. The Latin root of data comes from a notion of “the givens.” The state is producing statistics that are then given to the public as data. And those givens are then treated as facts.

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January 20, 2013

Edit: As was pointed out in the comments, you can find self-archiving info for most journals at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ [h/t Laurent]

I have been a bit frustrated about scientific publishing, as you might have been able to tell if you read some of my earlier posts on open access in academia.  I posted earlier this week about Aaron Swartz and the legal predicament in which he found himself when he downloaded huge numbers of scientific papers.  I was frustrated at the lack of access that most people experience to academic publishing, but didn’t want to resort to breaking the law to remedy the situation.  However, a certain amount of that frustration could have been relieved had I just taken the time to figure out where the boundaries lie in the copyright documents that I sign when I publish papers.  I decided to have a look to see how many of my rights remain, and I was quite interested to find out that I can post a reasonable amount of information on the web without breaking any laws.  As ever, this isn’t legal advice.  However, there do seem to be a few generalities that others can use to guide the release of their publications depending upon the publisher that owns the journals within which their papers are published:

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Bibliographie de l’article « L’annexion de la Savoie par la France »

Dès le XVIème siècle, alors que la maison de Savoie commençait à s’étendre dans le Piémont, ses possessions originelles de l’Ouest des Alpes devinrent militairement vulnérables, parce que les cols qui reliaient les deux régions ne permettaient pas des mouvements de grande ampleur. Au nombre des solutions alors envisagées figuraient la neutralisation de la région. Trois siècles plus tard, en 1815, des communes sardes et françaises jouxtant la ville du bout du lac furent cédées à la Suisse par le second Traité de Paris dans le but de désenclaver Genève. En contrepartie, la Confédération devait assurer la protection du Nord de la Savoie et permettre le retrait des troupes savoyardes par le Valais. Lorsque la Savoie fut annexée par la France en 1860, la Suisse chercha sans succès à ce que le Nord de la Savoie lui soit cédé de manière à garantir la défense de Genève et de l’Est du canton de Vaud. Le problème de la neutralisation de la Savoie resta ouvert pendant la guerre de 1870 – 71 et la première guerre mondiale. En 1919, les puissances contractantes du Traité de Versailles prirent acte d’un accord entre la France et la Suisse abrogeant le droit de la Confédération d’occuper militairement la Savoie. Cet acte mit fin à la neutralisation du Faucigny et du Chablais français.

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