"Global Commensality" is such a protean metaphor, n'est ce pas ?
Global, of course in the French sense, means all-encompassing.
Commensality - of course means "dining together", which has to be the world's second oldest intimate "profession".
Science and Society influence each other so much, round and round and, it is as if they dine together frequently at some common table.
Like Mr Dooley's Supreme Court, do the journals NATURE and SCIENCE follow (and review) the election returns -- and the Supreme Court?
Of course, eventually.
Just as the Supreme Court- most famously in "Buck versus Bell" - eventually follows (reviews) NATURE and SCIENCE.
This is why GCR's name (global - commensality -review) is a bit of a tease and a bit of a pun: yes it is following and reviewing the eternal re-cycling of scarce life-resources among on all life forms on Earth.
But it is also following and reviewing the co-mingling of the body fluids of Science and Society as they work with and against each other, stuck together on this tiny lifeboat we call our only home....
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