Some reflections on approaching retirement.

Reflections on Retirement.

Preparing for retirement: reflections on mistakes made and lessons learned.

When I started my career 35 years ago, I was asked what I considered a very strange question: “How much money do you want to contribute monthly to your retirement account?” I immediately thought, “Isn’t that a little premature—I haven’t even started my first job!” However, upon further reflection, I realized the value in preparing for something that, like death and taxes, is inevitable for phys...

Some reflections on talc poudrage.

We read with interest the well researched article of Stefani et al. [1] about the different techniques of intrapleural talc. This technical paper really filled the gap in our knowledge following established evidences of superiority of the talc itself [2,3] over other products. We have a question and two comments. Could we be provided with data on the size of the talc particles? This intriguing ...

Some reflections on racial profiling.

of the Editor. The authors were invited specifically to critique, or use as a stimulus, an article that appeared in the New York Times Magazine (June 20, 1999). The article, entitled "The Color of Suspicion" and authored by Jeffrey Goldberg, was an analysis of the practice that has come to be commonly known as racial profiling, articulated by Goldberg as "the stopping and searching of blacks be...

Some Reflections on Newton’s ‘Principia’

We examine the text of Principia to discover the extent to which Newton’s claims about his own contribution to it were justified. We argue that the general Scholium, written twenty six years after the first edition, substantially misrepresents the main body of the text for polemical reasons. We discuss papers of Wallis, Wren and Huygens that use the third law of motion, as stated by Newton in B...