How can we visualize similarity and difference across cultural conceptions of a good or worthy life? To examine the internal structure of such conceptions, we asked 584 university students from mainland China and Canada to indicate the relative importance of 30 elements or criteria commonly used in defining a good life. Statistical comparison and multidimensional scaling were used to reveal the...

Arguably Canada’s national sporting obsession, hockey is a vigorous physical activity, regular participation in which provides many of the physical and mental health benefits associated with regular exercise. This is particularly true for young Canadians. However, along with this and other positive effects, there is a darker side to hockey in Canada. In addition to the ongoing financial strain ...

Tbere is mucb to admire in Fred Feldman's Pleasure and the Good Life,^ and mucb witb wbicb to agree. It is a wondei-ful exploration of varieties of bedonism, and a demonstration of tbe plasticity of tbe very concept of bedonism. Feldman succeeds ably in arguing tbat most, if not all, of tbe traditional arguments against bedonism can be met by different versions of tbe tbeory, all of tbem versio...

Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) can be thought of as a life vest till the lifeboat (implantable cardioverter defibrillator ICD) arrives [1]. It is often used as a bridge to the implantation of an ICD when the indication for the latter is not yet well established in the subject. Sometimes it may be used as definitive therapy in those with limited life expectancy due to other serious co...

Look at the life around you. Everywhere, you are confronted with modularity and repetition, from the leaves and branches on plants, to your hair and the skeletal and other structures within you. Modularity, segmentation, and repetition are, like measures and tones in music, the way in which the living opus has been assembled by the composing processes of evolution. In his elegant book Evolution...

their allies in Congress did not need to rely on them. The Hospital Survey and Construction Act of 1946 (Hill-Burton Act) helped to drive the build-up of the supply side of the health sector. Because Hill-Burton paid subsidies to public and private organizations to build or renovate hospitals, states could afford to subsidize constructing and staffing research laboratories adjacent to teaching ...