August 7, 1921

Keith Dalziel: 24 August 1921 - 7 January 1994.

Erratum, Vol. 11, August 7 Release

The academic degree for author Stuart A. Gansky in the byline of the article “Recruitment for Health Disparities Preventive Intervention Trials: The Early Childhood Caries Collaborating Centers,” was corrected to DrPH. Also, because of a technical error, the second half of the sentence in the Interpretation section of the Abstract was omitted in the HTML version of the article. The full sentenc...

Seymour Benzer 1921–2007

It is now common knowledge that both “Nature” and “Nurture” determine animal behavior. But even as late as the 1970s, the concept that genes have anything to do with behavior was not universally accepted. In the face of such skepticism, Seymour Benzer, working tirelessly at Caltech, refused to join the philosophical debate and, in the way so familiar to those who knew him, shrugged his shoulder...

The Dentists' Act, 1921

new profession by the possible student. The professional status of the Dentist, which was to have been made secure by the Act, was so affected by the unprofessional conduct, such as advertising and canvassing, of the uneducated and unregistered, that few could be found to enter the profession, and so what the Act set out to secure for the protection of the public, it failed to obtain, in that i...

First Monday , Volume 7 , Number 8 - 5 August 2002

Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills by Mackie Chase, Leah Macfadyen, Kenneth Reeder and Jörg Roche This paper gives an account of themes that emerged from a preliminary analysis of a large corpus of electronic communications in an online, mediated course for intercultural learners. The goals were to test assumptions that electronic communication is...