Self-folding CNTs cause a racket

Progress in ARDS research: a protection racket?

The acute respiratory distress syndrome in adults (ARDS) may complicate a wide variety of serious medical and surgical conditions, not all of which involve the lung directly. The pathogenesis remains unclear, but involves neutrophil recruitment to the alveoli and inflammatory pathway activation leading to increased permeability of the alveolarcapillary membrane and disordered vascular control, ...

The Protection Racket

In recent years, it has been encouraging to watch the developmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) become more sophisticated in their thinking on the benefits of trade liberalization. NGOs such as Public Citizen that are against all forms of liberalization are now rare. Most NGOs including, for example, Oxfam, Christian Aid and Action Aid today agree that poor countries would benefit fro...

A method for building self-folding machines

The Racket Manifesto

The creation of a programming language calls for guiding principles that point the developers to goals. This article spells out the three basic principles behind the 20-year development of Racket. First, programming is about stating and solving problems, and this activity normally takes place in a context with its own language of discourse; good programmers ought to formulate this language as a...

Tuberculoid leprosy presenting as a “racket” lesion*

The "racket" lesion is a rare presentation of tuberculoid leprosy, which consists of a thickened nerve branch emerging from a tuberculoid plaque. It results from centripetal damage to cutaneous nerves caused by granuloma formation. We describe a typical case of tuberculoid leprosy presenting as a "racket" lesion. The lesion persisted after treatment with paucibacillary multidrug therapy.