About Guerrilla Scholarship

"Guerrilla Scholar" is a nominal job title of Dr. Sheldon Greaves, the author of Cogito! It is briefly defined as pursuing the life of the mind through unconventional means and methods. This web site is for the promotion and support of independent scholars, amateur scientists, artists, and all those who enjoy the life of the mind but can't, won't, or ought not to do so within the confines of academia.

Guerrillascholar.com is dedicated to the proposition that to acquire knowledge, no matter how obscure, is an essential human activity, and that using our insight to improve the world is the highest expression of the human spirit.


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  • Tube strike brings major delays September 8, 2010
    Millions of Londoners have been attempting to travel home amid a major Tube strike affecting nearly all its lines. […]
  • Petraeus warns over Koran burning September 8, 2010
    The US Afghan commander warns troops' lives will be at risk if a US church goes ahead with plans to burn the Koran, concerns echoed by the White House and Nato. […]
  • American soldiers killed in Iraq September 8, 2010
    Two US soldiers are killed in northern Iraq, the first US military deaths since Washington last month declared an end to combat operations in the country. […]
  • EU agrees new financial framework September 8, 2010
    European finance ministers agree a new framework for financial supervision, designed to help prevent future financial crises. […]
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Knowledge and Liberty for All

Change, especially the kind that moves a civilization forward, requires easy access to knowledge and information. The Founding Fathers understood this. As exponents of the Enlightenment, they saw the availability of knowledge and information as a critical element of a thriving and prospering nation. [...]

September 4th, 2010 | Category: Activism, Censorship, Education, Publishing, Reviews | One comment

And All Our Words... Dust

I was intrigued to see an interesting article on the website of American Scientist magazine about the problem of the volatility of the data that narrates our civilization.  The article, “Avoiding a Digital Dark Age” by Kurt Bollacker describes in detail several examples of how our high-tech world fails to imbue our information stream with [...]

March 4th, 2010 | Category: Education, Mass Media, Publishing, Tools and Ideas | One comment

In Praise of Paper

Amazon’s second generation Kindle, the D00511.

Recent months have seen an increase of posts and news items on the coming eBook revolution.  This way of delivering books has been a bit slower to catch on than proponents had hoped.  The Amazon Kindle reader was touted as the solution to the many reasons why readers weren’t taking [...]

March 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Mass Media, Publishing, The Intellectual Life, Tools and Ideas | 4 comments

Joining the Twittering Classes

As I slouch from middle age to full-on geezerdom I appreciate more and more the implied license one has to be a curmudgeon.  It comes in especially handy if you aren’t by nature an “early adopter”.  It took me until well into 2000 to finally buy a cell phone, for instance.  Audio CDs didn’t make [...]

January 13th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Mass Media, Publishing, Tools and Ideas | One comment

Publishing With A Poster

Publishing is one of the big barriers that face independent scholars and amateur scientists. In years past, people who didn’t have a Ph.D. or some other kind of institutional affiliation didn’t have a snowball’s chance of getting published in a respectable journal or presenting at a professional conference. The academic “old boys’ network” was tightly [...]

February 24th, 2006 | Category: Publishing | Leave a comment

Open Content Books and–Degrees?

I just ran across a really cool post by Kevin Carson at Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism about “open source textbooks”. I’ve known about some projects like the MIT Open Courseware project for some time; this is a collection of free, downloadable class materials that’s available to anyone with the bandwidth (both electronic [...]

February 2nd, 2006 | Category: Publishing, Tools and Ideas | Leave a comment