I wrote this publication in 2019, when I felt spiny and uncertain, not very different from what I feel these days. We have some more orchids now, although I am still very sure of how to take care of them. * I wake up this morning on the thorny side, or at least, I am…
Abstract A new species de Gesneriaceae, Petrocodon curvitubus JXWEI, B.pan and T. Ding, sp. nov. From Guangxi, China, it is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to P. Lui and P. TenuitubusBut it can be easily distinguished by its elliptical leaves from oblong ovate, corollas with two purple longitudinal stripes and conical…
Whether you are considering a professional movement or choosing a commercial strategy, the decisions that you make today that will have short and long term effects on you, your team and organization require a serious deliberation. They cannot be done too fast, nor can they be avoided. But in our complex business environment and fast…
Plagiarism, often called literary theft, is a persistent challenge in academia and research. It involves using the intellectual work of another person (ideas, text or concepts, without adequate attribution, claiming it as their own [[Aronson, 2007]; [Khadilkar, 2018]; [Bhattacharya, 2016]] [1]. This little ethical practice includes deliberate actions such as mosaic plagiarism, robbery of ideas,…
The authors have a conflict of interest or not, right? Mistaken. Digital Science research has discovered a network entangled by missing statements, errors and subterfuge, which highlights the need for a more careful evaluation of published research. In this year World Conference on Integrity of ResearchA team of digital science researchers led by Pitha Sarkar…
As part of the celebrations for 20 years of blogging, I am re-posting articles that in some way were notable for the history of the blog. This time I want to (re)-submit to you four pieces I wrote to explain the unexplainable: the very complicated analysis performed by a group of physicists within the CDF…
The earth began to form around 4.6 billion years back! It is believed that a distant star exploded in space, which caused large amounts of interstellar dust on itself. Our sun formed first and then the rest of the planets. The earth formed from the rock and dust that binds. The heat of the nucleus…
ZDNET In the last decade, Spyware tools have been repeatedly found in telephone numbers of journalists, activists and politicians, including US officials, raising concerns about the unprecedented proliferation of Spyware technologies and, subsequently, the lack of protections within the technological space amid threats. Also: Google publishes a report from the person responsible while eliminating its…
The earth landslides blog It is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. For anyone who monitors global landslides, Ramban’s district in Jammu and Kashmir, India is a family name. Located in a highly tectonically active area of the Himalayas, with a monozonic…
A European-Australian research team has encountered an unexpected accumulation of the rare radioactive isotope beryllio-10 at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Draed about 10 million years ago, this anomaly can serve as a global “time marker” that will improve geological dating methods in the deep past. But the mystery remains why much of this…