The problem is that the obligation to publish a certain number of articles in a year is incompatible with the actual research work itself, which goes through phases of greater and lesser productivity. The criteria is more quantitative than qualitative, which is perverse.
1. Range of an orologist’s knowledge?
5. French inventor of a 17th-century calculator
8. On a shore; of a coast
9. Optic layer below the sclera
10. Energy-making organelles
12. Little work for a horticulturist?
14. Fish-eating raptor
16. Response facilitated by neural pathways (2 wds.)
19. Intervertebral shock absorber
20. Bottom-dwelling decapods
22. NASA orbiter launched in 1973
23. Burner in a chemistry class (2 wds.)
2. Upper portion of either hipbone3. Cycles through, as crops4. Word before bladder, pump, or pocket5. Era of the “Cambrian explosion”6. Eight-armed ink dispenser7. Silvery member of the herring family11. 66-million-year-old impact crater13. Pillar from the time of Thutmose III15. Great Basin indigenous peoples whose name is an anagram of “pause ...
