Our Global Mission

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Revising Our Mission

Articulating our values to clarify our mission: Inviting community participation

E d i t o r i a l " The mission of The Journal of General Physiology (JGP) is to publish articles that elucidate important biological, chemical , or physical mechanisms of broad physiological significance. The major emphasis is on physiological problems at the cellular and molecular level. " In the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, the title character, a sports management agent, wrote a mission statemen...

Our Vision and Our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief

Bullshit”, as Harry Frankfurt writes in his recent book “On Bullshit”, is a communication that pretends to be genuinely informative but really is not. The person who talks bullshit, Frankfurt holds, is unconcerned with whether what he says is true, but is very concerned with how he is thought of by the listener. In this paper, I discuss Frankfurt’s theory of bullshit, making specific reference ...

Global Change Observation Mission (GCOM)

ADEOSIIwas launched on Dec., 2002. However, after about 10 months operation, it has lost most of its power due to the solar paddle failure. As a follow on of ADEOSIImission, JAXA is now planning GCOM mission which is composed of a series of satellites. They are now called GCOM-W and GCOM-C satellites. Both satellites are composed of 3 satellites with 5 year lifetime. Hence, 13 years of continuo...