Mailer Atones for His TV Sins

Memory: sins and virtues.

Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and distortions. Yet these memory "sins" also reflect the operation of adaptive aspects of memory. Memory can thus be characterized as an adaptive constructive process, which plays ...

Seven sins in modern medicine.

I recently came across an article from my residency training titled “The Seven Sins of Medicine.” Based on a 1948 lecture by Richard Asher, MD, the article proposes that, although there are a multitude of medical sins, seven are of primary importance: obscurity, cruelty, bad manners, overspecialization, love of the rare, stupidity, and sloth. Reading the article again, I wondered how these sins...

An ABC of Prescribing Sins.

Inter - synchronization for TV

Is 3-D TV preparing the way for holographic TV?

Holographic television, or “holo-video,” has been seen by many as the ultimate development not only of holography but of electronic visual communication generally. To make widespread, successful holo-video, four things are needed: 1) content, 2) a distribution mechanism, 3) sufficient processing at the receiver, and 4) suitable electro-optics at the display, and all of these must be available a...