Ludopathy: Play to Lose

Do you play to win--or to not lose?

Some personality assessment tools are good at identifying what you like to do, but they tell you very little about whether you're good at it or how to improve if you're not. Fortunately, one way of grouping people into types is based on an attribute that does predict performance: promotion focus or prevention focus. Promotion-focused people see their goals as creating a path to advancement; the...

Farewell to the Lose–Lose Reality of Policing Plant Imports

In an age of free international shipments of mail-ordered seeds and plants, more policing will not stop the global migration of hitchhiking pests. The solution is in a preemptive response based on an internationally coordinated genomic deployment of global biodiversity in the largest breeding project since the "Garden of Eden." This plan will enrich the narrow genetic basis of annual and perenn...

To play or not to play.

Not a moment to lose: some reminiscences

LESLIE T. MORTON and ROBERT J. MOORE, A bibliography of medical and biomedical biography, Aldershot, Hants, Scolar Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. ix, 208, £37.50. This book was originally conceived as a third edition of John Thornton's slim paperback A select bibliography of medical biography (1961, 1970) but has been so much enlarged and improved that it is rightly presented as a new work. Like its pre...

What have you got to lose?

• Chipping, sledging and hammering on metal, stone or concrete • Use of manual, pneumatic and power impact tools • Caulking, brushing and grinding • Drilling, scaling and scraping soldering and casting hot metals • Handling acids, caustics and creosoted materials • Gas welding, cutting and brazing • Drilling overhead • In environments of excessive dust • Electric arc welding and cutting, and ot...