In 1696 an Act of Parliament established the Bristol Corporation of the Poor. This brought together the Poor Law arrangements of all the parishes in the City. It was hoped that-the inmates by their work would produce goods which would have a ready sale and thus defray the costs. For this purpose the Aldworth mansion was purchased from a group of merchants, one of whom was Edward Colston. This b...

A setup is proposed to play a quantum version of the famous bimatrix game of Prisoners’ Dilemma. Multi-slit electron diffraction with each player’s pure strategy consisting of opening one of the two slits at his/her disposal are essential features of the setup. Instead of entanglement the association of waves with travelling material objects is suggested as another resource to play quantum games.

Johnny Cash. Upon boarding an airplane, I turned around, and there he was—the “Man in Black” (truly dressed in black and carrying a black guitar case). I asked for his autograph and, in the absence of a scrap of paper, had him sign my boarding pass only to have that part immediately taken away by the airline clerk. Seeing what was happening, he again signed the little part of the boarding pass ...