Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting

By its very nature, blogging is an uneven medium.  While some bloggers are experts engaging in serious discourse, others are just linking to nonsense they found on other blogs.  What makes matters worse is that even the most scholarly of blogs tend to include a mixture of the two (and, as Mark Hoofnagle points out, [...]

Like water off the back of a duck

Plant leaves are organs of photosynthesis. Their main role is to harvest energy from sunlight, and use that energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates. One of the fundamental trade-offs that plants have to make in leaf design is the need to maximise carbon dioxide uptake while minimising water loss. [...]