"This Little Thing That Is Europe"

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ...

During the colonial period in Kenya there were three Kikuyu men Kioi, Githogori and Kaminju who thought that they knew everything. They decided to go to adult education classes to learn English. When they went to the school they carried with them books and pencils and put them on a table. When the tutor came he asked them, "Who put these items here?" They said in the Kikuyu language ni ithuii a...

A little learning is a dang'rous thing.

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One of the commonest queries I receive as Editor-in-Chief is whether a submission can be accepted when the author's message is already known. The paper may have been presented at meetings a couple of times and might even have appeared in abstract form. Can we, as a journal, go ahead and publish without eyebrows being raised and the accusation of duplicate publication being made? The story start...

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