How to frame our behaviour in order to limit climate change?

robotic anesthesia: how is it going to change our practice?

Climate change: time to redefine our profession.

As the December Copenhagen Summit on climate change ended, the chief negotiator for the 130 ‘G77’ lowerincome countries said that the final document was ‘asking Africa to sign a suicide pact’. Greenpeace said: ‘The city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, and the guilty men and women are fleeing to the airport’. US President Barack Obama explained that he couldn’t stay for the final vote be...

How gesture works to change our minds.

When people talk, they gesture. We now know that these gestures are associated with learning-they can index moments of cognitive instability and reflect thoughts not yet found in speech. But gesture has the potential to do more than just reflect learning-it might be involved in the learning process itself. This review focuses on two non-mutually exclusive possibilities: (1) The gestures we see ...

a frame semantic approach to the study of translating cultural scripts in salingers franny and zooey

the frame semantic theory is a nascent approach in the area of translation studies which goes beyond the linguistic barriers and helps us to incorporate cognitive and cultural factors to the study of translation. based on rojos analytical model (2002b), which centered in the frames or knowledge structures activated in the text, the present research explores the various translation problems that...

An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress.

Despite the uncertainty in future climate-change impacts, it is often assumed that humans would be able to adapt to any possible warming. Here we argue that heat stress imposes a robust upper limit to such adaptation. Peak heat stress, quantified by the wet-bulb temperature T(W), is surprisingly similar across diverse climates today. T(W) never exceeds 31 degrees C. Any exceedence of 35 degrees...