A spaceman came riding…

The elder spaceman

Usually, when scientists call a news conference, it’s to announce new results from a study. But when NASA calls one to talk about the space shuttle, chances are the topic won’t be results — it will be about unrealized plans. And, in the case of John Glenn, that’s probably a good thing. The US senator’s nostalgic return to space came 36 years after he became the first American to orbit the earth...

Former spaceman critical of U . S . - Soviet policy

Former U.S. astronaut Walt C u n n i n g h a m sha rp ly criticized the policy of cooperation with the Soviet Union in space flights and space technology before a standing-room-only audience in Ryon 201 last Tuesday night. H i s m a i n o b j e c t i o n to sharing space is that the United States would lose the cons iderable edge in technology it gained during the heyday of the space race. He e...

Osler came to Boston.

Free Riding

We use a unique dataset that combines the responses from an original survey of households, information about the structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity consumption. Attention is restricted to ...

When Asperger's Disorder Came Out.

BACKGROUND In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association removed Asperger's Disorder from the DSM, offering instead the new DSM-5 diagnosis: Autism Spectrum Disorder. This change has been hailed the most controversial exclusion from the DSM, yet unlike the 1973 removal of homosexuality from DSM-III, Asperger's disorder has not been demedicalised. Rather, the disorder has simply been reclassifie...