Being “humorous without being disrespectful”

Seeing without being seen

Over the past decade, researchers have reported several impressive discoveries aimed at controlling the flow of light in ways that defy common intuition. Andrea Alù and Nader Engheta, at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Pennsylvania, in a paper in Physical Review Letters now propose a way of sensing with light through a nearly invisible detector [1]. This follows previous...

Reforming federalism without being radical

There are three main areas of our federal system that need reform. The first is the allocation of powers and functions between the levels of government. The allocation made by the framers of the Constitution in the 1890s may no longer be appropriate today. Many of the complaints of unnecessary duplication, cost-shifting and lack of coordination can be traced back to the absence of clear divisio...

Being naturalised, being left b

With around five million people accessing anti-retroviral treatment, which significantly reduces mortality and extends life, the HIV pandemic now exists in a context of treatment possibility, if not access. This paper discusses ways in which the pandemic is becoming naturalised through medicalisation, normalisation and marketisation, and how these processes undermine themselves internally. The ...

Being a researcher, being an editor, being an author.

With me, it happened in the beginning of the last decade (1990). When the post of editor of the unit's periodical became vacant, the Director, like most Directors, looked around him in search of his best friend or his worst enemy. He picked me for one of those two reasons, which one of them I have not found out. But it really does not make that much of a difference given the size of the problem...

Being right or being happy: pilot study