First Rounders Podcast: Tom Maniatis

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Ubiquitous network connectivity for devices does not automatically imply continuous reachability for people. People move from place to place and switch from one network device to another. As a result, phones ring in empty oÆces, email cannot reach most cell phones, and spam clogs expensive, lowbandwidth links to laptops. Whereas existing mechanisms have addressed host mobility or the mobility o...

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Response to Maniatis critique of anchoring theory

Perhaps her most important charge is that edge classification, a key part of my earlier intrinsic image theory (Gilchrist, 1979), was abandoned by anchoring theory but more recently, surreptitiously re-introduced. In fact, edge classification was never abandoned. It morphed into the idea of framework segregation. The source of the confusion lies in the following sentence: ‘‘...the belongingness...

Medicine's Intrinsic Good (Podcast)

What is good medicine? Who counts as a good doctor? These are very large questions that cannot be fully addressed here. I want to focus on a basic aspect of these two questions and on the ethical idea of "the good." The term "good medicine," as I have just used it, is not intended to be contrasted with "bad medicine." Rather it is meant to bring to the fore that medicine is something good in it...

Podcast interview transcript.

I n each volume of the Journal, the editors select one article for our Beyond the Manuscript post-study interview with the authors. Beyond the Manuscript provides the authors the opportunity to tell listeners what they would want to know about the project beyond what went into the final manuscript. The associate editors who handled the articles conduct our Beyond the Manuscript interviews. Haer...