The Loser Takes It All. Labour and Jeremy Corbyn: A Response to Steve Richards

The winner takes it all.

W e all make mistakes from time to time. I have made my fair share, but none of my mistakes have ever won a prize. In 2002 Lundbeck breached the UK industry code of practice in the way it advertised escitalopram (Cipralex). Escitalopram is the son of citalopram (Cipramil). The company claimed that its new drug, escitalopram was more effective than citalopram, even though the two drugs have exac...

The winner takes it all

We study competing first passage percolation on graphs generated by the configuration model. At time 0, vertex 1 and vertex 2 are infected with the type 1 and the type 2 infection, respectively, and an uninfected vertex then becomes type 1 (2) infected at rate λ1 (λ2) times the number of edges connecting it to a type 1 (2) infected neighbor. Our main result is that, if the degree distribution i...

Journalistic Representations of Jeremy Corbyn in the British Press :

A Loser All the Way

Heroin appears to provide an easy escape from apparently unbearable social and economic conditions. It presents a serious temptation to psychopathic and deviant individuals, but its vicious hold is hard to break and it inevitably drags its adherents downwards. Research has yet to come up with either an effective method of prevention or cure, but, as Dr. James H. Willis shows in this article, li...

Neurodegeneration: The Size Takes It All

There is increasing computational evidence that the exceptionally high vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease may be due to their unique axonal architecture and resulting metabolic needs. A new experimental study has actually demonstrated this.