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by Eva_Peron 4727 days ago
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.
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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.