We Must See the Possibilities

We see what we are trained to see, or must we? Some personal lessons from a brush with kuru research

It began in 1957 when I received via a colleague a batch of sera from kuru patients and some controls from Carleton Gajdusek. I was immensely excited, as was Carleton, when I found a quite remarkable elevation of some a and b globulin components in the kuru sera that seemed to be absent from the controls. However, our excitement cooled in the face of more data that indicated that the sera in qu...

We must--and we can--do better.

How we see ourselves and how we see others.

People see themselves differently from how they see others. They are immersed in their own sensations, emotions, and cognitions at the same time that their experience of others is dominated by what can be observed externally. This basic asymmetry has broad consequences. It leads people to judge themselves and their own behavior differently from how they judge others and those others' behavior. ...

Must we fear adolescent sexuality?

Editor's Note There is a general fear and anxiety surrounding adolescent sexuality. The question is why? Must we fear adolescent sexuality? This question, the title of the following article, is one that Amy Schalet, PhD, has spent the past decade investigating. It has culminated in a masterful doctoral thesis and a book to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006. More specifical...

Integrating the Curriculum Why We Must Transform

"^"^ Then today's students complete %/%/ their schooling, many of them T T will be functionally illiterate, unprepared to participate in or guide our scienceand technology-oriented soci ety. This situation, though bleak, is hardly surprising. More than 200 national reports on science education have described the current curriculum as obsolete. "In a great many cases, precollege education in the...