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Governments everywhere, notably in Eastern Europe, are bent on selling public assets to private investors. They have a lot to learn from the muddled sale of the British electricity industry, now under way.
With the increasing financial squeeze faced by taxonomists, the time may now have come to dispense with massive herbarium collections. Indeed, the clear-out might lead to a better quality of taxonomic research.
A model calculation has shown how the speed of the Earth's rotation differs between the northern summer and the northern winter because of the seasonal variation of the force between the atmosphere and the spinning Earth.
