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Safe and warm and dry: part 3

With what propriety [I ask] can these effects be called the disordered movements of matter?
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Safe and warm and dry: part 2

To the consternation of the Apologists…
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Safe and warm and dry: part 1

You have become the butterfly you may have once pinned to corkboard…
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Something from nothing

Oops…
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All good

After an unusually long interval…
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Good to know: part 5

“Let’s face it…” must rank as one of the most arrogant (and ineffective) ways to engage in a discussion
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Good to know: part 4

Here’s the thing about wars: they’re great for science, both in its acceleration and in its funding. WW I was good. WWII was great.
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Blankets all the way down

Forthcoming…
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Good to know: part 3

When it comes to the provision of public goods, it turns out, fairness (suum cuique tribuere), has nothing to do with it…
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Henny Penny

The Abolition of Man…
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Good to know: part 2

That would be the hope…
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Good to know: part 1

Many things in life are tiresome, and among those things might fairly be included the open-access debate in scholarly publishing.
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That and the thing it came in

Everyone knows what they’re writing about, right?
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Except, maybe

For reasons beyond imagining (but maybe that’s the point) you find yourself reading…
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The betting sort

If you were French in the latter sixteenth century lucky enough to have time to pass…













