Plans for research watchdog praised, but it may lack teeth

Implementing New Regulation Promotes Health but May Increase Inequality

They think it's all over, but it may not be!

I t is evident that anyone required to perform at a high level in sport or other physically demanding occupation has a limited number of years before demands made on the body begin to take their toll, sometimes accompanied by difficulties of a psychological nature. Although there may be a good deal of informal support from family, friends, and perhaps even other athletes who have retired, in so...

There Is an ‘Unconscious,’ but It May Well Be Conscious

Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called "meta-consciousness" in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space f...

Boost for Europe's research plans

After years of deliberation, the European Union introduced its new instrument of science funding, the European Research Council, through a back door, by including it in the latest edition of its Framework Program, FP7 (see Curr. Biol. (2005) 15, R359). Since then, a Scientific Council has been busy laying the foundations of what is designed to become a European pendant to the US National Scienc...

Research Plans

My research activity so far seems to lie in two main areas, which I have called noncommutative algebra and concrete mathematics for the purposes of this summary. The following contains a description of past research and a discussion of topics on which (at date of writing) I think I would work in the next few years, if I were on a desert island (with a reasonable library). Of course, things have...