Climate Change: Our Rush to Extinction or Victim of Our Own Success?

Climate change: time to redefine our profession.

As the December Copenhagen Summit on climate change ended, the chief negotiator for the 130 ‘G77’ lowerincome countries said that the final document was ‘asking Africa to sign a suicide pact’. Greenpeace said: ‘The city of Copenhagen is a crime scene tonight, and the guilty men and women are fleeing to the airport’. US President Barack Obama explained that he couldn’t stay for the final vote be...

Ancestor to Call Our Own

Controversial new fossils could bring scientists closer than ever to the origin of humanity POITIERS, FRANCE—Michel Brunet removes the cracked, brown skull from its padlocked, foam-lined metal carrying case and carefully places it on the desk in front of me. It is about the size of a coconut, with a slight snout and a thick brow visoring its stony sockets. To my inexpert eye, the face is at onc...

Can We Become Victims of Our Own Success?

T he last 5 years seem to have marked a transition in the history of diabetes care. Whereas for two decades we have preached the importance of good glycemic control to manage the risk of diabetes associated complications, the truth of the matter is that rarely did patients with diabetes achieve target A1C levels Ͻ7%. As reported in Diabetes Care in 20008 in an analysis of the National Health an...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Using our hands to change our minds.

Jean Piaget was a master at observing the routine behaviors children produce as they go from knowing less to knowing more about at a task, and making inferences not only about how children understand the task at each point, but also about how they progress from one point to the next. This article examines a routine behavior that Piaget overlooked-the spontaneous gestures speakers produce as the...