In a great example of how technology is transforming the independent film world, BLAST is opening itself up, via ArtistShare (the first film to do so on ArtistShare), to interested participants on several levels. If you want to be Executive Producer, $150k gets you there. Want to participate on other levels, from $50k down to [...]

Amber Budden and her colleagues analysed papers published in two ecology journals. One, (Behavioural Ecology) switched to double-blind review in 2001 while the other (Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology) uses the traditional method of single-blind review, where reviewers remain anonymous but authors do not.
In the four years which followed the introduction of double-blind [...]

Although I am an engineer I nevertheless consider myself a layperson where climatology is concerned. I have taken an interest in so called anthropogenic global warming initially because it sounded so serious but now because the quality of the science behind it is so bad. I also follow the Blogs by Steve McIntyre on the [...]