An Unpublished Scottish Lullaby

An amnesty for unpublished trials.

This month over 100 medical journals around the world are inviting readers to send information on unpublished trials.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...

Elizabeth Gaskell and mesmerism: an unpublished letter.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writer dealing primarily with domestic life found in Lord David Cecil's Early Victorian novelists' has now largely been replaced by an approach that recognizes her engagement with the wider social issues of mid-nineteenth century England.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...

Unpublished Manuscript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...

Lullaby: Environmental Sensing For Sleep Self-Improvement

We are developing a system to help users improve the quality of their sleep by monitoring environmental factors that disrupt sleep and providing feedback. This system, called Lullaby, has several design goals. Lullaby’s sensor suite should be practical for deployment into bedrooms: it must be unobtrusive, inexpensive, and respect users’ privacy in this sensitive context. Lullaby should identify...

Lullaby, Chorale, or Hurdy-gurdy Tune?