Stating the obvious, but there are MAJOR first amendment problems with trying to get ISP's to block porn sites by default. I don't see how something like this could come to a vote without major controversy. There is still such a thing as freedom of expression, last time I checked.
First they came for A, and I did not speak because I was not A. Then they came for B, and I did not speak because I was not B. Then they came for C, and I did not speak because I was not C. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
That is such a fantastic idea! I enjoy browsing science papers on the internet, especially physics, so it is very cool concept to have a site where they are boiled down into non-specialist terms. Awesome.
Thanks! It's going to be a difficult task, but probably a very worthy one. Even for scientists getting into a new field it would be useful to get an overview of some things first, before drilling down into the details.
We're working on a way to get existing plain english summaries from various places on the web and combine them with ScienceGist's database, to make ScienceGist a central, all-encompassing, permalinkable repository of simplified science.
