We discuss some aspects of recent research as well as more general issues about motivation, useful methods and open problems in the field of cosmological singularities. In particular, we review some of the approaches to the general area and include discussions of the method of asymptotic splittings, singularity and completeness theorems and the use of the Bel-Robinson energy to prove completene...

Sir: The article “Googling Suicide: Surfing for Suicide Information on the Internet” by Recupero et al. demonstrates that while most suicide-related Internet “hits” are either suicideneutral or anti-suicide, the Internet allows individuals to easily access not only Web sites that furnish detailed instructions on maximizing self-harm but also sites that provide forums for encouragement and suppo...

Design, setting and participants: The Talking About The Smokes project used a quota sampling design to recruit 1392 daily smokers from communities served by 34 Aboriginal community-controlled health services and one community in the Torres Strait from April 2012 to October 2013. These were compared with 1010 daily smokers from the general Australian population surveyed by the International Toba...

Given the profusion of illness-related information, in this article, we consider how talking about information seeking-and in particular Internet use-is difficult, not because it is necessarily a highly sensitive topic (though it may be), but rather due to the unusual and unfamiliar situation of talking about information seeking. Drawing on interviews conducted as part of a study on the educati...

Abstract When talking about anticipated events, speakers can conceptualize them either as destinations towards which they are moving or entities them, correspond to the Ego- and Time-moving metaphors, respectively (cf. ‘ We approaching Christmas ’ is ’). Research in psycholinguistics has shown affective valence, i.e. whether conceptualized event perceived positive negative, be one of factors th...