Charlie Ellington FRS retires

Bill Harvey retires.

Andrew D. Ellington

Andrew Ellington received his BS in Biochemistry from Michigan State University in 1981, and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Harvard in 1988. As a graduate student he worked with Steve Benner on the evolutionary optimization of dehydrogenase isozymes. His post-doctoral work was with Jack Szostak at Massachusetts General Hospital, where his lab developed methods for the in vit...

The Clumsy Charlie Series

These four readers for the illiterate represent an apparent contradiction in terms. They are in fact not 'readers', but a teaching-aid for the recognition of a social sight vocabulary. The books can be used in a variety of ways by the perceptive teacher to help the young adult illiterate to gain a 'shorthand communi-cation', to assist him in adjusting to the community. The key words of the voca...

Are You Charlie or Ahmed? Cultural Pluralism in Charlie Hebdo Response on Twitter

We study the response to the Charlie Hebdo shootings of January 7, 2015 on Twitter across the globe. We ask whether the stances on the issue of freedom of speech can be modeled using established sociological theories, including Huntington’s culturalist Clash of Civilizations, and those taking into consideration social context, including Density and Interdependence theories. We find support for ...

Age of Wife When Husband Retires

benefits in 1953 ___. lion, private carriers were responsible for 62 percent, State funds for 25 percent, and self-insurers for 13 percent. Total State fund disbursements, including payments to Federal Government employees, again increased at a slightly faster rate than private carrier payments-5.6 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively. The unevenness in the rate of increase from State to State...