Forensic psychiatric evaluators of adolescent defendants are often asked to address open-ended questions that affect what court an adolescent will be tried in and what sentence he might receive. Such questions often involve the extent to which the adolescent should be considered less culpable than an adult who has committed a similar offense. Assessing partial or diminished culpability in an ad...

The Reverend Bayes (1702–1761) has become well known for his Theorum, and developed a following of statisticians and their hangers-on who declare themselves to be ‘Bayesians’. Does his contribution merit the enthusiasms of his followers? Or is his legacy overhyped? Bayes did not publish any mathematical work during his lifetime under his own name, and indeed his major attributed work was appare...

Conversing happily with my son we had been driving home when my mobile phone rang. Startled at the sound of my obstetrician’s voice I had pulled off to the side of the road. At 18 weeks gestation I was told in a factual tone that the results from my serum screen had come back, indicating that our baby was at increased risk of Trisomy 18. Gripping the steering wheel my head had spun as he talked...

Walter Block's critique of my paper fails to address the main argument. It is that Ludwig von Mises's support for laissez faire comes from a comparison of the systems recommended by the ideologies of socialism, interventionism, and liberalism. Mises compares these systems according to the criterion of their capacity to achieve the goal of satisfying material wants, which is either explicit or i...

In two studies, we examined whether (a) conceptions of Jesus would differ between Koreans and Americans, and whether (b) national differences in self-reported personality and well-being are mediated by the cultural norm for personality and well-being. Because there is only one Jesus, different conceptions held by Koreans and Americans are likely to reflect cultural construction processes. In St...

This paper examines the reasons why Physician He (Yi-He, sixth century BCE) was regarded as a founder in the classical medical tradition of China. By most accounts, Physician He's importance owes much to his theoretical innovations. In contrast to earlier healers, Physician He purportedly framed the aetiology of illnesses solely in terms of natural causes, as opposed to attributing sickness to ...

1 Abstract—Historians of electrical technology deal routinely with inventions, inventors, theoreticians, large-scale sociotechnological systems, and corporate and institutional history. Yet one category of major contributor to the development of the discipline is rarely considered in detail: the engineering educator. This paper presents the contribution of one of the outstanding teachers of ele...