‘We could be anything we wanted to be’: remembering Jimmy Rogers

Joint Pain and Fatigue: It Could Be Anything.

It had been more than two weeks and I could not seem to shake off the tiredness and joint pain I felt. Being a wife, mother of three children, and physician, I was always on the run. Taking care of patients and teaching residents and medical students at work, and then coming home to cook dinner and teach and take care of our children, was my routine. I had done this for many years without much ...

Are we too busy to be happy?

How uncertain do we need to be ? ?

Expert probability forecasts can be useful for decision making (§1). But levels of uncertainty escalate: however the forecaster expresses the uncertainty that attaches to a forecast, there are good reasons for her to express a further level of uncertainty, in the shape of either imprecision or higher order uncertainty (§2). Bayesian epistemology provides the means to halt this escalator, by tyi...

Do we Talk to be Relevant ?

In Why we Talk, cognitive scientist Jean-Louis Dessalles presents an original, in-depth account of the nature and evolution of human language. Written in a clear and engaging manner, Why we Talk is an impressive achievement. Dessalles reviews and contributes to most controversies about human language. He compares human language to other systems of communication found in the animal world, arguin...

Women, we need to be courageous.

12 Women, we need to be courageous Illuminée munyabugingo My name is Illuminée Munyabugingo. The 1994 genocide against Tutsis happened when I was thirty-four years old. I was born in Kigali in a camp for internally displaced persons. My family had moved there from Eastern Province because of the 1959 massacres of Tutsis. We were a family with sixteen children. During the 1959 massacres, the hou...