“Meditation is Good for Nothing:” Leisure as a Democratic Practice

Nothing is as practical as a good theory

This is the third issue of Perspectives on Medical Education. PME aims to share with you, our reader, the growing body of knowledge and understanding in the broad domain of health professions education. We aim to inspire you to conduct (more) research yourself and to contribute to the building of a coherent body of evidence. Additionally we hope to increase a further understanding of learning i...

[Nothing as practical as (a) good theory?].

There Is Nothing So Theoretical as a Good Method.

This article documents two facts that are provocative in juxtaposition. First: There is multidecade durability of theory controversies in psychology, demonstrated here in the subdisciplines of cognitive and social psychology. Second: There is a much greater frequency of Nobel science awards for contributions to method than for contributions to theory, shown here in an analysis of the last two d...

Delivering clinical decision support services: There is nothing as practical as a good theory

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When too little is as good as nothing at all: Rationing a disposable good among satiable people with acceptance thresholds

We study the problem of rationing a divisible good among a group of people. Each person’s preferences are characterized by an ideal amount that he would prefer to receive and a minimum quantity that he will accept: he finds any amount less than this threshold to be just as good as receiving nothing at all. Further, any amount beyond his ideal quantity has no effect on his welfare. The focus of ...