Are we all seeking truth? Even science is far from it.

I wasn’t surprised to see my remark about Nature and Science contested but I was surprised to see who did the contesting, because what I see as the faults of these journals are exactly the sort of faults that you often criticize in your books. They both publish a lot of work that is fashionable […]

New digital rights management in scientific literature

I long back to the days in academia where we had university wide licenses for full text pdf of journals. Just received one document from the British Library today with the following note:

The document contains 8 pages, is 514KB, was posted on July 23, 2008 and is now available. It must be downloaded and printed […]

Dress styles

I know, this is not really a post belonging onto the scientific blogosphere, or is it?

You may be familiar with certain dress styles across disciplines — looking back at my times at university we always used to joke about the “law” types or the “economics” students — always dressed to kill, or rather with collar […]

Lucky Andrew

Lucky Andrew, you still can read your papers and be done with. Yes, of course you can learn about anything just by reading papers. I adore your time and diligence: actually checking out primary literature for a whole hip topic, understanding the changes, transitions and side-effects of it, it must be fun.

No, seriously, I mean […]