In their Letter [1], Schreck, Bertrand, O’Hern and Shattuck (SBOS) study nonlinearities in jammed particulate systems that arise when contacts are altered. They conclude that there is “no harmonic regime in the large system limit (N → ∞) for all compressions ∆φ” and that “the density of vibrational modes cannot be described using the dynamical matrix ..., which dramatically affects mechanical r...

Many scientists have until recently considered consciousness to be unsuitable for scientific research. As Damasio remarks, ‘studying consciousness was simply not the thing to do before you made tenure, and even after you did it was looked upon with suspicion’ (Damasio, 1999, p. 7). Prompted by technological developments as well as conceptual changes, this attitude has changed within the last de...

were removed, and on the 8th day, that is, on the 16th June, he was discharged cured. Since then I met him about a week ago, he is all right and perfectly recovered. Remarks.?It is a curious thing that even when the membrane of brain are -exposed, there was no symptom of brain mischief. Secondly, a portion of bone, though broken, united kindly within so short a time. Lately I was reading Dr. Cr...

We make three remarks about the quantum theory of a charged particle moving in a time-independent, uni-directional magnetic field (which we take to be parallel to the z-axis). First, when the field is uniform, we comment on the relation between the wave-function on the one hand if it is chosen to be an eigenstate of momentum (leaving aside the trivial z-dependence) and hence non-normalizable, a...

Abstract Emotions seem to be epistemically assessable: fear of an onrushing truck is justified whereas, mutatis mutandis , a peanut rolling on the floor not. But there difficulty in understanding why emotions are assessable. It clear beliefs for instance, epistemic assessability is, arguably, with respect likely truth, and belief by its nature concerned truth; truth we might say, belief’s “form...

I think Odysseus is not lying completely to the Phaeacians, but is stretching the truth. He wants to be known as a hero and have stories told about him so he stretches the truth. When he is telling his adventure and stories, ultimately he can say whatever he wants and no one can really question him. He might not be stretching the truth but possible leaving bits and pieces out to make him seem s...

Complaining women overheard in conversation was a trope deployed Renaissance literature to criticize public figures and hold them account. This essay discusses why, with what effect, an anonymous author used female persona known readers of the popular sixteenth-century satirist Robert Sempill order comment on political crisis generated Scotland by demonstrations against imposition Prayer Book 1...

In a programming project, it is easy to lose track of which files need to be reprocessed or recompiled after a change is made in some part of the source. Make provides a simple mechanism for maintaining up-to-date versions of programs that result from many operations on a number of files. It is possible to tell Make the sequence of commands that create certain files, and the list of files that ...

We study social learning by boundedly rational agents. Agents take a decision in sequence, after observing their predecessors and a private signal. They are unable to make perfect inferences from their predecessors’ decisions: they only understand the relation between the aggregate distribution of actions and the state of nature and make their inferences accordingly. We show that, in a discrete...