Japanese court backs woman researcher

Being a woman researcher in an Anatolian village

This essay represents the first editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field". In this memoir, the author details the evolvement and intellectual progression of her research focusing on wild food plant consumption within a remote community in the high steppes of Central Anatolia during the early Nineties. The author conv...

Business backs the basics.

arlier this year, a number of leaders from major U.S. corporations gathered at Sunnylands in California to discuss the critical importance of basic scientific research. For decades, the private sector has withdrawn from some areas of basic research, as accelerating market pressures, the speed of innovation, and the need to protect intellectual property in a global marketplace made a Bell Labs–s...

Boys' Backs

an unimportant amount of time bending over his desk, so that bad positions have not the opportunity of making more or less "staying" faults. But at this time a beginning may be made, either for good or bad. The boy may. be trained to sit correctly at his seat, especially when writing or drawing. lie may be trained to read with his book held before his eyes, not with the book flat upon the desk....

Hypothesis: the research page. One researcher, two researcher, three researcher, four. Five researcher, six researcher, seven researcher, more!

Backs to nature

" There's a perception that global warming is something that will happen smoothly into the future, but some of these ecosystems go into abrupt decline when warming reaches a certain threshold, " said Tim Lenton, an environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia, and lead author of the study. " If we know when the different tipping points are, we can use them to inform targets to limit...