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Call me--mobile telephone blues.

The development of mobile telephone communication technology and its availability on a worldwide scale has been widely recognised as a force for good. There have been, however, concerns about the possible harmful effects of prolonged exposure to this technology. Two articles in this issue investigate possible harmful effects of mobile telephone use. Seckin and colleagues investigate the possibl...

-800-call-me: the Myth of the Passive Prospect 1-800-call-me: the Myth of the Passive Prospect

Models of the evolution of signalling have often failed to consider the role of signal receiver as anything more than that of a passive recipient of signals. This passivity takes three forms. First, receiver's are often modelled as valuing information for its own sake, whereas signallers are taken to place diiering values on receiver response. Second, receivers are often considered to be free f...

Or " Call Me Ishmael " – How Do You Translate Emoji?

We report on an exploratory analysis of Emoji Dick, a project that leverages crowdsourcing to translate Melville’s Moby Dick into emoji. This distinctive use of emoji removes textual context, and leads to a varying translation quality. In this paper, we use statistical word alignment and part-of-speech tagging to explore how people use emoji. Despite these simple methods, we observed difference...

Call me Doctor? Confessions of a hospital philosopher.

Accustomed as many of us have become in the era of clinical bioethics to the idea of a "hospital philosopher", on reflection the historical novelty of the role is astonishing, as are its ambiguities. As a result of considering my own experience I found myself writing this miniature intellectual autobiography. In the course of this essay I raise two specific questions: what can the Western philo...

Don't you call me desiccated, J. Wellington Wimpy.