In a career spanning five decades, Raoul Bott has wrought profound changes on the landscape of geometry and topology. It is a daunting task to improve upon his own reminiscences [B3], [B4], [B1] and commentaries on papers [B5], punctuated as they are by insight, colorful turns of phrases and amusing anecdotes. This article, based on his writings and on interviews and correspondences with people...

This paper gives a brief overview of the development of Michael Halliday’s work in Systemic Functional Linguistics over the last sixty years and recalls some anecdotes relating to the research projects he directed at University College London in the 1960s. It locates the author’s approach in relation to Systemic Functional Linguistics and raises some questions to do with possible avenues of fut...

one which could well have been applied to the pioneers of many reforms. This is, of course, the Abortion Law Reform Association. Mrs. Jenkins is well fitted to describe it, for she was a co-foundress, and she has been actively concerned for 34 years : and her account is vivid and stimulating. The method of approach is, however, more to recount a series of anecdotes?very telling ones?than to pre...

While habit, tradition, uncontrolled clinical experience, and anecdotes may appear to support the value of a given therapy, these sources of information are deeply unreliable. They inevitably conform to our pre-existing biases, and they can be found to support every possible practice, thus never allowing us to reject any therapy as ineffective. The dramatic and undeniable success of scientific ...

Since 1993, members of the MIT Wearable Computing Project have been engaged in a \living experiment," incorporating wearable computing into their everyday lives. Such immediate access to computation power enables a unique lifestyle and has many social implications. Through the use of anecdotes, this paper will attempt to relate our observations on the perception and adoption of new technology, ...

‘A bias towards vividness might well mean that a powerfully placed decision maker will act on the basis of unrepresentative, but highly vivid, personal experiences or anecdotes and ignore the "dull" results of large, well designed statistical surveys. It is of no practical value to consider whether such behaviourcan, b y some philosophical device, be deemed to be "rational." It is evident that ...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to investigate the communicative constitution organizational inclusion and/or exclusion through humorous acts at expense members minorities historically disadvantaged groups. Design/methodology/approach Semistructured interviews with 84 employees in Austria and Germany dealing their experiences regarding diversity (D&I) work were conducted analyzed two...