Editorial Criteria of Humanity

Editorial: acceptance criteria and editorial procedures for Optics Letters.

Optics Letters Editors strive to provide timely reviews and decisions for authors while bringing top quality papers to the optics community. The purpose of this editorial is to explain Optics Letters' acceptance criteria and editorial procedures. Our hope is that greater transparency concerning the decision-making process will increase understanding as well as acceptance of our criteria and pro...

Editorial: CORR® criteria for reporting meta-analyses.

Meta-analyses and systematic reviews provide ways of synthesizing literature to clarify issues on which there is controversy or to confirm generally held views. They are used increasingly in orthopaedic surgery and other fields: a PubMed search of orthopaedic meta-analyses using ‘‘(orthopaedic[ad] OR orthopedic[ad]) AND meta-analysis[ti]’’ yielded 145 articles, 104 of which were published since...

Humanity 2009

Chris Baldwin, a devised theatre practitioner and co-editor of a practical guide to devising theatre, lists the devising director’s responsibilities as building a production and performance team, timetabling, compiling documentation of the rehearsal process and, crucially, fulfilling the role of spectator as the devised show is developed and rehearsed. Described by Baldwin as ‘at the centre of ...

Humanity 2.0?

Humanity is constantly reinventing itself. From the earliest days of our species, when one of our ancestors picked up a burning stick and kindled it into a fire, to the present day, when we search for the ‘god particle’ and clone sheep, cats, dogs and more, humans have been altering their environment and shaping the world around them. the history of our species is a stream of discoveries— major...

A flash of humanity.