Clerk, Chancellor, Castaway (1374–1419)

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Castaway: Context Aware Status/To-do list

The larger hypotheses motivating the concept of Castaway are twofold. First, we hypothesize that people would be able to remember more tasks, organize their tasks more efficiently, and spend less time worrying about forgetting tasks if they had a flexible, multimodal (voice, paper, mobile phone, email, web) “ready to hand” way to create, centralize, integrate, access, manage and carry out the d...

The iron chancellor and the fabian.

Adam Wagstaff (2009) reports on a statistical comparison of social health insurance (SHI) versus tax financed (TF) health systems within the OECD. On average, SHI financing is more expensive than TF and yields no better health outcomes. It lowers overall labour force participation and reduces the share of the formal sector. Why, then, is interest in SHI increasing in developing countries?Consid...

James Clerk Maxwell's Scottish chair.

This account of Maxwell as professor of natural philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, fills in many details that have been left out of Maxwell's biographies. It discusses the degree programme that Maxwell taught on, the nature of his colleagues, the type of student he had in his classes and the range of activities involved in his teaching. Evidence is cited that Maxwell was an enthusiastic...

James Clerk Maxwell 150 years on.

This paper is the preface to a special Issue of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A reporting selected proceedings of the international conference marking the 150th anniversary of James Clerk Maxwell's professorial debut at Marischal College, Aberdeen. Following an introduction to Marischal College, a brief historical note summarizes Maxwell's life prior to his entering the college as professor of natural p...