A kind of meta-journal or review of scientific articles. The idea is to dig up really exciting pieces of research from any field — the kind of science that has serious implications for the way we should all understand the world we live in.

"Simonyi believes he can solve a host of stubborn problems that have always plagued computers by offering everyone who uses them, and the coders who program them, a higher-order view of software."

Any group of people who have something in common, and who have their own mailing list, will naturally tend to form a clique unless specific steps are taken to avoid it.