A CARICATURE relating to the marriage of William Allen, F.R.S., (1770-1843) to Grizell Birkbeck, widow of Wilson Birkbeck, has recently come to light. It bears the title 'THE ATTRACTION OF GRAVITY !!!, the space being filled with a plough (Allen's pharmacy was in Plough Court, Lombard Street, London) and the subheading: 'Eye Natures walks shoot Folly as it flies'. This coloured engraving, by an...

Cascading inventions and innovations in computer and communications technologies, and other technologies in the field of electronics and physics, have spawned numerous devices that represent a coalescence, or merging, of both technological and occupational functions. The one common thread in this process is the data resource, the raw material that these devices collect, process, and communicate...

Congratulations to the authors for their concise summary of the flaws, frailties, and limitations of ANOVA-based toxicity metrics. Having made similar calls for a transition to model-based inference, I am naturally fully supportive of the Landis and Chapman ‘‘fatwa’’ on bankrupt statistical methods in ecotoxicology. This timely article should, and no doubt will, generate much discussion among e...

The Pd/D co-deposition process was developed by Stan Szpak at the Naval Laboratory in San Diego as an alternative means of initiating LENR. Besides heat, other nuclear products that have been measured using Pd/D co-deposition include tritium and the emission of γand X-rays, neutrons, and energetic particles. This communication summarizes 19 years of LENR research that has focused on the Pd/D co...

The Internet has been the victim of numerous worms in the last few years. All such worms have a common underlying principle: launch a blitzkrieg-like attack with wide fan-out. These worms’ operations constituted large denial-ofservice attacks, which disrupted the normal operation of the Internet and made many resources inaccessible. These worms are examples of a historical tendency to write wor...

value from its particular concrete content."). 102. This process is familiar from everyday experience; it is reflected, for example, in the wellknown fact that protections against employment discrimination (a practice at odds with the impersonal logic of market-based recognition) form a leading edge of popular support for gay rights quite generally. See Lydia Saad, Tolerance for Gay Rights at a...

A hundred years ago Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was taught as the foundation of biology in public schools throughout the United States. Then something happened. In the 1920s, conservative religious groups began to argue against the teaching of evolution in our nation's schools. Darwinism, they said, contradicted the revealed word of God in the Bible and thus was a ...

Marybeth Gasman Princeton University Press, 2022 In 2016, wrote an opinion piece that appeared in the Washington Post about her experience answering question, Why do research and elite institutions lack minority scholars? Her response was admittedly frank: “‘We don't have more faculty of color among college [because] we want them.’ Those audience were surprised by my candor gave me a round appl...

A recent article published in the latest issue of PLoS ONE by Csupor et al. assessed that, at least for a very special subgroup of homeopathic medicines, a big concern about their reliability and safety still currently exists [1]. As highlighted by these authors’ work, homeopathic products may contain ingredients in allopathic doses. Low dilutions and mother tinctures still play a role in homeo...

O n New Year’s Day, some striking news broke in Science: a piece by this reporter called “The bad luck of cancer” and the research study it was based on, published simultaneously in the journal. As Science’s story and many other news accounts of the paper explained, the study authors concluded that simple “bad luck”—their description of random mutations accumulating in healthy stem cells— could...