We usually avoid subjects that make us feel uncomfortable. As in general these are those we cannot deal with, the consequences of such omission can be really bad. Problems with our children classical examples topics avoid. Published 2003, “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is a novel written by Lionel Shriver, adapted big screen 2011. The film addresses vicious cycle problems caused mother who negle...

Three experiments on the production of time expressions are reported. In each experiment, speakers produced time expressions to analog clock faces while their eye movements were recorded with a headband-mounted eye tracker. Previous work has shown that speakers can apprehend the visualconceptual information in a clock display very quickly, and that this is followed by relatively slow, increment...

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best pay...

Highlights of the meeting include new insights into r and s-processes and an explosion of interesting abundance data on stars in the Galactic halo and in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. I include in this summary a few suggestions on the chemical evolution of the Thick and Thin disks, and on the present and past distribution of baryons and metals in the universe.

* Of Washington University Law School, St. Louis. 1 Rebecca Johnson, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002). 2 [1993] 4 SCR 695. 3 Johnson, supra note 1, at 3-53. Rebecca Johnson’s impressive new book, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law,1 is ambitious. In the book, Johnson explores the debat...

Nufact08 is the tenth in a series of workshops started in 1999, whose main goal is to understand options for future neutrino-oscillation experiments to attack the problems of the neutrino mass hierarchy and CP violation in the leptonic sector. I present a very brief review of what we know and what we would like to know about neutrino mass, mixing, and flavor change. I consider the interplay bet...

Extinctions are a part of life on earth. Indeed, over 99.9% of all species that once existed have gone extinct. However, humans are doing a good job in helping species into early extinction. In this talk, I fist review some classic mass extinction, and then review ecology and genetic risk factors for extinction. I finish by discussing how to assess (and defend) a species risk assessment and wit...

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best pay...