A brave new world: integrating well-being and conservation

Brave New World of Conservation Paleobiology

Conservation paleobiology is a rapidly developing, socially relevant field that uses information from geohistorical records to address current problems in the conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services (Dietl et al., 2015). Over the past decade, the field has achieved critical mass—filling an empty niche in the conservation landscape—with the beginnings of a core litera...

Brave new world. Integrating electronics into a hospital security plan.

Although approximately 90% of cameras that are currently installed in hospitals are analog-based, the trend is to switch to IP network-based digital cameras. How IT, security, and other departments can work together to successfully implement the new systems is explained in this article.

A Brave New Integration World

Brave New World

Scientific publishing began in 1665 with the inauguration of the Journal des sçavans in France and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in England. These enterprises established the pattern that has endured to the present: that of a learned publication, financed privately, which shared knowledge within a select circle. By recording a date of publication, claims of scientific prio...

Brave New World

Written in 1931 and published the following year, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopian—or anti-utopian—novel. In it, the author questions the values of 1931 London, using satire and irony to portray a futuristic world in which many of the contemporary trends in British and American society have been taken to extremes. Though he was already a best-selling author, Huxley achieved intern...