Are We Kidding Ourselves That Research Leads Practice?

Child-resistant containers: are we kidding ourselves?

A 20-month-old child was accidentally poisoned after biting through the bottom of a medicine container and ingesting the tablets inside. Consequently a study was carried out to determine the force required to fracture 20 randomly selected 25 and 32 ml polystyrene containers to see whether this exceeded the bite force of a child's jaw. Tests were performed at displacement rates of 0.5 and 10 cm/...

Are We Over-Drugging Ourselves ?

he repeats the statement in substance, but softens the blow just a little by the qualification that ninetenths of all the bottles of medicine are mere placebos, having none but a psychological effect on their recipients. The doctor's calling is a high one, and he is engaged against powerful opposing forces in a struggle for the existence of his patients. But doctors have to live like lesser mor...

Are you kidding, doc?

Why are we not taking care of ourselves?

We Do It Ourselves

In Philips there is a need for many competent software developers. Not for everyone in the company software development is a real engineering activity. They claim that there are no fundamental theories underlying software and software construction. On the other hand, only a few universities offer a curriculum in software engineering, most curricula deal with computer science. Since ten years we...