Callisto, created by Sexual Health Innovations in 2015, is a sexual assault reporting application based on an information escrow model. By employing walkthrough method of the platform’s primary tools (recording and matching), this essay situates Callisto’s design within proliferating informal rape justice responses that try to overcome law’s disappointing rehearsal “he said/she said” logic. Thi...

Happy New Year and welcome to the twenty-third issue of HIV This Week! Topics include men who have sex with men (it’s the context, baby), HIV prevention trial conduct (the importance of good participatory practice in HIV vaccine trials); stigma (the double jeopardy whammy of ageism and HIV stigma; stigma in health care settings in China; stigma and secondary stigma among Chinese villagers), neu...

Mrs. Mary McCullagh reports on the progress she has been able to make in teaching her son to read, although he had been classified as ineducable. The trouble is, of course, that I'm not supposed to be doing it at all. Once your child is classified as 'in-educable', then it follows almost as the night the day that he or she will never read. Not perhaps in theory, but more often than not in pract...

A generalization of the Vandermonde matrices which arise when the power basis is replaced by the Said-Ball basis is considered. When the nodes are inside the interval (0, 1), then those matrices are strictly totally positive. An algorithm for computing the bidiagonal decomposition of those Said-Ball-Vandermonde matrices is presented, which allows to use known algorithms for totally positive mat...

The scientific flaws in medical research, especially as they relate to randomized controlled trials are rather uniform and the common denominator of such flaws is the attempt to prove, rather than falsify, the study hypothesis. This interactive educational exercise is an attempt to highlight these flaws in short scenarios.