Monthly Archives: September 2013

Life’s Small Pleasures on a Sunday Morning

Having just emerged from a week of a strange blue funk, I’m noticing life’s small pleasures, which have been drifting by unobserved, unappreciated, above my head.  A flu shot, itchy allergy-ridden eyes, and new glasses that didn’t quite fit right … Continue reading

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On my Late Discovery of the ‘Charter of the Forest’

The Magna Carta Manifesto,* a book written by Peter Linebaugh, has spurred all sorts of thoughts.  Primary among those is simply my learning that a companion volume to the Magna Carta itself exists.  The Magna Carta is a central and … Continue reading

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A Brief Comment on ‘Systematic Reviews’

There is a movement afoot to encourage a more systematic and replicable form of literature review within science.  On the one hand, I do recognize and approve the notion that we need to be broad in our reviews and not … Continue reading

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