Tag Archives: publishing

Whose By-Line?


Recently, Mike Taylor recalled the issue of the effectiveness (or rather, ineffectiveness) of peer review and the standard publishing system (here, here and here are the most recent entries), and this included a small discussion on the form and necessity … Continue reading

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Can Evolution Be Recursive?


This isn’t necessarily about how stick insects have re-evolved wings in lineages in which the wings have completely disappeared … several times over. This is about how evolutionary processes work in odd ways to potentially redevelop a condition which, historically, … Continue reading

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SOPA, the Research Works Act, and Relative Evil


This one is greatly off-topic, but of much relevance to Science in general. Skip if you do not want to read further.

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