An Afternoon with Roger

Sunday Afternoon with the Wounded

The house was " sold out"?-packed from floor to ceiling. And small wonder since, apart from any sentimental reasons, that marvellous man, Mr. Alan Adair, had provided a full afternoon's entertainment of talent, humour and rollicking jollity. Many of the capable artists were greeted like old friends, which, indeed, they were, often having given their services on previous occasions to hearten up ...

QnAs with Roger D. Cone.

The factors underlying obesity are multifaceted, but recent research suggests that the brain’s melanocortin circuits, which play a key role in controlling the balance between energy consumption and use, lie at the heart of obesity. According to Roger D. Cone, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 and chair of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt Univ...

Afternoon Break

Roger Clarke

The search for viable eBusiness models continues. But important information is being overlooked. Discussions of open source software all too often focus on the limited context of Microsoft appearing to feel threatened by what it portrays as unbusinesslike competition from Linux and OpenOffice.org; whereas that debate is merely one small facet of the whole. Moreover, in addition to software, a g...

Roger Hanlon

Megadamania The global desire to develop energyhungry industries and Western lifestyles, combined with the necessity to do so without further increasing the use of fossil fuels, has led to a massive spree of dam building around the world. A recent assessment by Christiane Zarfl from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries at Berlin, Germany, and colleagues estimates tha...