The Missile Crisis 60 Years On

Missile injury of the head disclosed by computed tomographic scan 60 years later.

POLICING THE CRISIS 30 YEARS ON Still Policing the Crisis?

Writing this has been a troubling experience. Returning to a text 30 years on in this way combines intellectual, political and personal refl ections in an unsettling way. These range from a powerful attachment to processes of collective or collaborative intellectual work that Policing the Crisis (PTC; Hall et al., 1978) embodied and enhanced to a rather depressed sense of how many things the bo...

60 YEARS OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY: The hypothalamo-GH axis: the past 60 years.

At the time of the publication of Geoffrey Harris's monograph on 'Neural control of the pituitary gland' 60 years ago, the pituitary was recognised to produce a growth factor, and extracts administered to children with hypopituitarism could accelerate growth. Since then our understanding of the neuroendocrinology of the GH axis has included identification of the key central components of the GH...

Responsibility beyond 60 years.

T his year marks the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended World War II. Whatever the historical circumstances at the time, the bombings were tragic experiences for the cities and for the many who sustained severe blast, heat, and radiation injuries. The horrifying consequences prompted efforts to control nuclear arms proliferation, an issue that still rem...

Musing on the Past 60 Years in Electrical Engineering Education

Having been in higher education, first as a student, then as a faculty member, for half a century gives me personal experience with the profound changes that occurred in engineering education in later half of the 20th century and, now, the first decades of the 21st century. After World War II, the fact that many engineering contributions to the war were made by scientists and mathematicians cau...