non fiction

Academic publishing: an interesting and complicated beast

Academic publishing: an interesting and complicated beast

It started by referencing Indian cassava plantations and ended with a German soccer team analogy, while the words in between were littered with such gems as ‘virgin cell’, ‘grandiose brain capacity’, ‘the smelling of hydrocarbons’, and ‘without grudge and piggishness’; even blockchains got a fucking mention.

The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)

The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)

Once upon a time, on 5 June 1995 at 5.55 pm, a duck flew into the glass facade of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam in the Netherlands and died, and the rest - as they say - is history, but what follows is the story behind this blog’s title, which I figured was a neat introduction and will serve as my welcome post.