Evolutionary Economics

Report: Two Solar Technologies That Will Thrive; Two On the Demise

25 May 2012

For every revolutionary advance in solar, there are countless evolutionary dead-ends — technologies that were well worth exploring, but ones that ultimately failed to live up to the mantra of "cut costs or die."

In Anne Enright's 'The Forgotten Waltz,' a self-indulgent protagonist acquires her desire: New in Paperback

25 May 2012

Melancholy pervades Anne Enright's exquisite novel The Forgotten Waltz , the kind in which self-absorption replaces self-awareness, and self-indulgence trumps pretty much everything else.

Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?

25 May 2012

Researchers push for end to publishers' default ban on computer scanning of tens of thousands of papers to find links between genes and diseases Professor Peter Murray-Rust was looking for new ways to make better drugs. Dr Heather Piwowar wanted to track how scientific papers were cited and shared by researchers around the world. Dr Casey Bergman wanted to create a way for busy doctors and ...