Edmond Halley: The First Geophysicist

Brian Edmond McConnell

of 48, of Dr. Brian McConnell, one of Bristol's best known and respected practitioner5, I He will be sadly missed by his very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, not oflb in the medical profession but in the broader social world beyond it. A personal friendship which was to last for over twenty years began during the v^f in a disused Cornish sea-side boarding house where, as fellow office...

The Distributed Co in Comet Halley

Examination of the spatial distribution of CO intensity of Comet Halley indicates that a large fraction of CO originates from the refractory organic component in the coma, rather than directly from the volatiles in the nucleus. Based on the fluffy aggregate interstellar dust comet model, we have estimated the upper limits of the total amount of CO provided by coma dust. The implications from th...

Éditorial: Edmond Bianco (1932-2005)

Underpinnings of Medical Ethics Edmond

emeritus professor of medicine and former head of medical genetics at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; a retired research biochemist in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, National Institute on Aging; and a psychiatrist in private practice who is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Their background is therefore medical rather than philosophical, and th...

Global Economy Chris Edmond International Trade

Virtually all economists, liberal or conservative, believe that free (or freer) trade is a good thing: good for consumers, good for workers. Why? Because consumers are able to buy products from the cheapest vendor, and workers are able to take jobs that offer the highest wages. But if trade is such a good idea, why do non-economists find the idea so puzzling, and even dangerous? The purpose of ...