I’m not a fan of folk music; tin whistles and tapestry waistcoats leave me cold but I do like a berber with a bongo so I was very happy to go and see Tiramisu or whatever they were called. They were a lively bunch of swarthy gentlemen dressed in robes and wrap-around bonnets and...
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The 1990s "string theory" boom was an example of what happens when a critical mass of researchers realise how to game the system. If enough people start churning out work on the same subject, and eagerly citing each other in multi-author papers, they levitate up the scientific citation indexes together. You...
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