So strong are the centrifugal and fractionating forces in modern science that one may well wonder whether, even by loose analogy, Newton's third law has any validity here-whether in fact there are any effective agents for unity, synthesis, or broad evaluation working in reaction to the primary but usually peripheral quest for the frontiers. The very organization of research and teaching tends t...

This is an account of my time as a resident student at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, from the summer of 1941 until I qualified in June 1942. The Hospital for Sick Children, founded by Dr Charles West in 1852, was the first children's hospital in the UK. During the second half of the 19th century children's hospitals were set up in other parts of London and in the major ci...

Estep et al.’s Challenge tactics centre on repeating the word “unscientific” as often as possible in the apparent hope that this will render the judges oblivious to the complete absence of substance in their submission. Particularly incongruous is their accusation that I use the media to skirt expert criticism, when the SENS Challenge itself is my most conspicuous effort to do just the reverse,...

ROLLIN HOTCHKISS, the distinguished biochembut he always seemed more intensely interested in knowing what others were doing and thinking, be they scienist and geneticist, died last December at the age of 93. I met Rollin in the summer of 1945 in Cold Spring tific stars or lowly graduate students. It was not all serious, however, and humor ran high. Rollin’s playfulness Harbor. He had come to ta...

extended abstract 1. introduction abbasid period can be regarded as an epoch in which poetry and eulogy in persia reached maturity, i.e., in which poetry has become a means of praise and admiration (dayf, 2006, p. 565). the kings of this dynasty gathered a group of flattered eulogists and used them for political announcements (alebadi, 2006, p. 13), by allocating precious gifts of war booty to ...

The relationship between journalism and the academy is historically fraught. Any mention of the word ‘theory’ is only likely to exacerbate these tensions, since it perhaps signifies, most clearly, the division between both identities. Drawing on the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper considers, with particular empirical reference to the New Zealand context, the often antagonistic rela...

Tiruppur town, in Tamilnadu state, was propelled to the center of India’s cotton knitted garment exports through in the last two decades of the 20 century. What is key about industry in Tiruppur is that work has been organized through networks of small firms integrated through intricate subcontracting arrangements controlled by local capital of the Gounder caste, from modest agrarian and workin...