“Bizarre but Somehow Never Quite Satisfactory”: Storytelling in “The Office”

Why lady Guns will never be quite like the men

Never quite there: a tale of resuscitation medicine.

Resuscitation medicine is of its nature multidisciplinary and for that reason something of an orphan. Perhaps that is why its development as an effective branch of medicine was so long delayed, for it started a little over 40 years ago, within my own professional lifetime and very much within my memory. Amongst the precepts that drive progress in science and in medicine are four that are manife...

The CanMEDS framework: relevant but not quite the whole story.

BACKGROUND Despite acknowledgement that the Canadian Medical Educational Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) framework covers the relevant competencies of physicians, many educators and medical professionals struggle to translate the CanMEDS roles into comprehensive training programmes for specific specialties. AIM To gain insight into the applicability of the CanMEDS framework to guide the ...

Not Strange but Bizarre Physics from the Sample Experiment

Since the report of the SAMPLE Collaboration suggesting the strange-quark contribution to the nucleon, G M (0), may be greater than zero, numerous models have appeared supporting positive values for G M (0). In this paper the bizarre physics associated with G M (0) > 0 is illustrated. Using new lattice QCD results, our best estimate for G M (0) shifts slightly from G M (0) = −0.75 ± 0.30 μN , t...

Molecular arrangement in water: random but not quite.

Water defines life on Earth from the cellular to the terrestrial level. Yet the molecular level arrangement in water is not well understood, posing problems in comprehending its very special chemical, physical and biological properties. Here we present high-resolution x-ray diffraction data for water clearly showing that its molecular arrangement exhibits specific correlations that are consiste...