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The near-collapse of the British research enterprise has become a public issue. The extra funds announced this week may be a palliative, but cannot be a cure. The House of Lords has the luck to look closer.
The centenary of the volcanic eruption of the island of Krakatoa has been an occasion for listing other such phenomena. There are (and have been) a lot of them.
Conference proceedings — symposia — are generally disliked, yet make up a large part of the lists of most scientific publishers. Anthony Watkinson examines this aspect of publishing.
