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On segmentation

Posted by , on 24 June 2014

‘Increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity’ ‘The study of segmentation: that way leads only to madness’ Alfred Romer (1894 – 1973), Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ...

Conflicts of Interest

Posted by , on 28 October 2013

‘‘None of the scientists would comment on the record, for fear that it would affect their funding or that of their postdocs and graduate students’’ Nature, September 2012 ‘Is science ...

'Education, Education, Education'

Posted by , on 15 October 2013

‘‘Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.’’ Benjamin Franklin.   I am in Paris. I love Paris. It reeks of the arrogance and certainty still of the ...

The end of biology?

Posted by , on 9 July 2013

  ‘England is the only nation on earth that has managed to limit the power of kings by resisting them, and has finally established a wise system of government in ...

Has the academic spring sprung?

Posted by , on 23 April 2012

Two weeks ago the Guardian newspaper, the safe port of call for most left-leaning liberal academics in the UK, devoted its entire front page to the rise of open access ...

Recent comments by Thomas Butts

A very fine obituary that makes an interesting contrast in styles with the one published in Science. A terrific read.
by Thomas Butts in Obituary: Walter J. Gehring (1939-2014) on August 4, 2014