Comments on: Green Ben – Benjamin Franklin and Ecosystems http://www.historynet.com/green-ben.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:31:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tony Tramonte http://www.historynet.com/green-ben.htm/comment-page-1#comment-144050 Tony Tramonte Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:09:32 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13681073#comment-144050 This was a great article, the best I have read on Armchair General. This was all news to me, and I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about history. What I found particularly interesting were Franklin's comments about letting out the result of his experiments even if they were incomplete or not completely proven. Maybe progress is slowed down today, by the need for refereed papers, to "publish or perish" etc. Also,. an "interdisciplinariast" like Franklin might have a harder time achieving success today, with all the fields, sub-fields, and sub-sub fields. Thanks! This was a great article, the best I have read on Armchair General. This was all news to me, and I consider myself fairly knowledgeable about history. What I found particularly interesting were Franklin’s comments about letting out the result of his experiments even if they were incomplete or not completely proven. Maybe progress is slowed down today, by the need for refereed papers, to “publish or perish” etc. Also,. an “interdisciplinariast” like Franklin might have a harder time achieving success today, with all the fields, sub-fields, and sub-sub fields.

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