Editorial Sins

Memory: sins and virtues.

Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and distortions. Yet these memory "sins" also reflect the operation of adaptive aspects of memory. Memory can thus be characterized as an adaptive constructive process, which plays ...

Seven sins in modern medicine.

I recently came across an article from my residency training titled “The Seven Sins of Medicine.” Based on a 1948 lecture by Richard Asher, MD, the article proposes that, although there are a multitude of medical sins, seven are of primary importance: obscurity, cruelty, bad manners, overspecialization, love of the rare, stupidity, and sloth. Reading the article again, I wondered how these sins...

An ABC of Prescribing Sins.

Eight Deadly Sins of GRL

SINS of Viscosity Damped Turbulence

The problems with explaining the Small Ionized and Neutral Structures (SINS) appealing to turbulence stem from inefficiency of the Kol-mogorov cascade in creating large fluctuations at sufficiently small scales. However , other types of cascades are possible. When magnetic turbulence in a fluid with viscosity that is much larger than resistivity gets to a viscous damping scale, the turbulence d...