An Unpublished Batak Creation Legend

An amnesty for unpublished trials.

This month over 100 medical journals around the world are inviting readers to send information on unpublished trials. This amnesty should have important benefits for patients. Why? Reports of properly conducted randomised controlled trials are the foundation of eVective health care, but many are not submitted for publication. 2 This reduces the power of systematic reviews to detect moderate but...

Discharge before noon: an urban legend.

Elizabeth Gaskell and mesmerism: an unpublished letter.

The work of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) is not often seen as a source for the student of medical history. However, the picture of her as a undemanding writer dealing primarily with domestic life found in Lord David Cecil's Early Victorian novelists' has now largely been replaced by an approach that recognizes her engagement with the wider social issues of mid-nineteenth century England. Criti...

Open Source Development: An Arthurian Legend

OSSD (Open Source Software Development) achieves remarkable success in delivering complex software systems – systems which are incredibly reliable and robust – in a short amount of time and without even paying anyone! Naturally, in the face of this success, organizations are interested in seeing if the mechanisms behind OSSD success can be migrated into their own practices, hopefully improving ...

Unpublished Manuscript

We here review the evolutionary theory relevant to the question of human cooperation and compare the results to other theoretical perspectives. Then, we will summarize some of our own work, distilling a compound explanation that we believe gives a plausible account of human cooperation and selfishness. This account leans heavily on group selection on cultural variation but also includes lower l...