After seven-and-a-half years as editor, and with 130-plus editorials behind me, I’m facing the tyranny of the blank page for the final time: my last editorial.
How lucky I’ve been to be editor of this publication at this time. I often think of the poor editor of a glossy golf magazine who talked at a publishing meeting a couple of years ago. His comments went something like this: “We have three types of content: Where to play golf, what to play golf with, and how to play golf. Of these, the third is of far the most interest to readers, but the advice has been essentially unchanged since the magazine started in 1959. We are in a constant search for new ways to say the same thing”.
Should Evolutionary Theory Evolve?
Our quandary at The Scientist is the opposite: With so much going on in ...
