Ban Everything

To ban or not to ban?

The past four years have seen a steady increase in the number of companies that offer direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing services and in the number of such tests for genetic risk factors, including a wide range of diseases and other non-disease-related traits. These companies sell their tests outside the traditional healthcare setting and often do not involve healthcare professionals for ...

Bromoxynil Ban

a potent new luteinising hormone-releasing hormone agonist Zoladex (ICI 118630) in a phase I clinical trial. On progression of disease 26 patients have undergone therapeutic oophorectomy. We present the clinical and endocrinological responses to treatment in 45 assessable patients. The response rate to Zoladex in this series was 31% and the ER status of the primary tumour was predictive of a re...

To ban or not to ban? - that is the question.

Everything Computes

The emergence of complexity in our universe is caused by generative processes that confound us. Collective behaviours going under names such as evolution, swarming, embryogenesis, thought, and emergence produce results that seem counterintuitive (or downright impossible) when the individual elements in the collective are examined. In this seminar I explore the causes of complex behaviour in gen...

Everything flows

S ometimes, an important aspect of the world is so obvious that we simply take it for granted. We rarely discuss it or even think about it explicitly. In our opinion, the processual nature of reality— that it is fundamentally a sequence of interconnected occurrences or events—is one such aspect: we continually experience change, but tend instead to explain the world in terms of static things. F...