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The Saturday Review, whatever sins may be laid to its charge, is certainly not open to accusation on the score of flattery. We can therefore all the more appreciate the following graceful tribute to the labours in the cause of humanity and science, which have been undertaken and succesfully performed by officers belonging to the Indian Medical service. The passage which we quote occurs in a gen...

Do children know when people tell the truth but not the whole truth? Here we show that children accurately evaluate informants who omit information and adjust their exploratory behavior to compensate for under-informative pedagogy. Experiment 1 shows that given identical demonstrations of a toy, children (6and 7-year-olds) rate an informant lower if the toy also had non-demonstrated functions. ...

Applications developed for large-scale heterogeneous environments must address a number of challenges not faced in other networked computer systems such as LAN clusters. We describe some of the problems faced in implementing the PlanetLab Node Manager application and present general guidelines for application developers derived from those problems.

Alas, poor Darwin. By all rights, 2009 should be his year, as books, museums, and scholarly conclaves celebrate his 200th birthday (Feb. 12) and the 150th anniversary of “On the Origin of Species” (Nov. 24), the book that changed forever how man views himself and the creation. Teamed with genetics, Darwin’s explanation of how species change through time has become the rock on which biology stan...

Science cannot progress without scientists reporting their findings. And yet researchers have given control of this central pillar of the scientific process to science publishers, who are in the business of serving the interests of their journals; these are not always the same as the interests of science. This editorial describes the problems with the process of preparing and publishing researc...

use program in two medical-surgical intensive care units in a thirdlevel teaching hospital in Colombia. Infectio 2012;16:192–198. 4. Hernández-Gómez C, Pallares C, Escandón-Vargas K, et al. Economic impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program implementation in three high-complexity hospitals in Colombia. Open Forum Infect Dis 2016;3:S273. 5. Cabana MD, Rand CS, Powe NR, et al. Why don’t phys...

1. Not planning at all By far the most common planning problem is simply not planning at all, and this sin is easily avoided. A person need not be an expert planner to plan effectively. I’ve seen numerous instances of projects planned by rank amateurs that have run well simply because the people in charge had carefully considered their project’s specific needs. Forced to choose between an exper...

You must have surely seen that our good friend Dr C. Quince, has been given yet another huge grant from The Thanatology Foundation for a large project to find human genes for avarice and venality. The factories keep on multiplying and growing and I hope you are never tempted to acquire a dark, satanic mill of your own and join the band of new alchemists who turn gold into base pairs. Some histo...

After your call I thought I should write to try to persuade you not to take any of the drastic steps you were contemplating yesterday. Anger has only scalar properties; it has magnitude but no particular direction. I know you are furious about having your papers turned down, but threatening the editor with public horse-whipping or sending him a letter bomb, although clearly attractive, are a bi...