Hard Truths About Suicide Prevention

Some Hard Truths About Agriculture and the Environment

Environmental problems in agriculture have proven difficult to address due to the spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability intrinsic to agriculture. Agriculture is largely a struggle against nature; both its sustainability and the prospects for improving environmental performance and farm income simultaneously are thus inherently limited. Agriculture’s high degree of variability makes dir...

Timeless Truths about Sequential Circuits

We suggest the use of a declarative programming language to design and describe circuits, concentrating on the use of higher-order functions to structure and simplify designs. In order to describe sequential circuits, we use a language , fp, which abstracts from temporal iteration. The practicalities of vlsi design make regularity attractive, and we describe the use of familiar higher order fun...

New unsweetened truths about sugar.

Weare inthemidstofaparadigmshift in researchonthehealth effects of sugar, one fueled by extremely high rates of added sugar overconsumption in the American public. By “added sugar overconsumption,” we refer toa totaldailyconsumption of sugars added to products during manufacturing (ie, not naturally occurring sugars, as in fresh fruit) in excess of dietary limits recommended by expert panels. P...

Ten (tentative) truths about elder abuse.

Inconvenient truths about effective clinical teaching.

I’ve been teaching clinical medicine for more than 30 years but it seems to be getting harder, not easier. Conventional wisdom in the USA holds that the problem is time and money (or, more precisely: time is money). Hospitalised patients, discharged before doctors can get to know them, are sicker and quicker today. Outpatient teaching is no less awkward, 10-minute offi ce visits and outdated Me...