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My understanding is that copyright is null if it relates to a state that doesn't exist anymore. I think it's almost always safe to assume that Soviet-produced images are public domain.
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Here's a 2006 news story about Don Mitchell's processing of data from old Soviet Venus missions. Amazing stuff. "Mitchell obtained the original data from the two landers with the help o…
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Or even on the shelves of famous libraries - one of my favorite historical finds in recent decades was Deborah Harkness's discovery of John Dee's "Book of Soyga" (an Elizabethan oc…
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I recently paid a visit to one of Ivies for a postdoc interview and a group of professors there were discussing the study that this article refers to. They all believed that "cream rises to the t…
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I study this stuff, after a fashion! (Historian of globalization and intellectual exchanges). I would conjecture that if something exists in multiple European languages prior to, say, the 17th century…
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Not sure if I agree with this (Linus Pauling comes to mind), but speaking anecdotally, I once had breakfast with a recent winner of a MacArthur grant (the so-called Genius Grant) expecting to be the r…
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The active placebo idea strikes me as a plausible one here, and came up in a 2011 article by a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine which I found pretty thought-provoking: http:/…