15 Minutes: Belarus!

My 15 minutes of fame.

The reporting of “medical news” has become an important part of the barrage of information available in print, in electronic media, and, of course, in the 4 billion or so sites on a Google search for health-related topics. My own brush with this phenomenon came about through co-writing an editorial1 on one of the most pedestrian issues that one can imagine: How much water should one consume eac...

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(Phys.org) —Researchers have discovered an alternative way to make an invisibility cloak that departs from other attempts to do so. Attempts in the past have been via metamaterials, created by assembling structures that interact with the light they will cloak. Metamaterials are far from perfect, are expensive, and are time-consuming, so the research team, from Zhejiang University in China, the ...

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Primary care pediatricians give parents advice. Academic pediatricians give primary care pediatricians advice about what advice to give parents. Rarely, though, do we subject our advice to empirical trial. In " An Evaluation of Mother‐centered Anticipatory Guidance to Reduce Obesogenic Infant Feeding Behaviors " in this issue of Pediatrics, French et al 1 do just that, and they deserve to be co...

The Libraries of Belarus

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015 (Libraries in a Postcommunist World: A Quarter of a Century of Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: Part 2, edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu), pp. 781–793. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This paper highlights the history of libraries in Belarus, including the library network development and its current structu...