The award-winning novelist John Crowley talks about fantastic literature, alchemy, and his new translation of the 17th century hermetic classic, The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosenkreutz (Small Beer Press).
Nature Bats Last – 01.12.16
Our guest this week was Hal Niedzviecki, author of “Trees On Mars: Our Obsession With The Future.” This book cuts to the chase for a future that is beyond the madness we are already experiencing. It does not rely upon progressive “solutions” but instead looks reality dead in the eye. Guy also provided a brief climate-change update.
Five companies control more than half of academic publishing BY RALPH TURCHIANO
A study at the University of Montreal shows that the market share of the five largest research publishing houses reached 50% in 2006, rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30% in 1996 and only 20% in 1973. “Overall, the major publishers control more than half of the market of scientific papers both in the natural and medical sciences and …
Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal
A major publisher of scholarly medical and science articles has retracted 43 papers because of “fabricated” peer reviews amid signs of a broader fake peer review racket affecting many more publications. The publisher is BioMed Central, based in the United Kingdom, which puts out 277 peer-reviewed journals. A partial list of the retracted articles suggests most of them were written by scholars at …