Closing out twenty-twenty on a positive note

Closing remarks: Environmental health in the twenty-first century

Introduction It is a challenge to summarize a meeting ofthis nature. The presentations have been interesting and provocative. Some have looked forward, others have simply tried to take the next step, while still others have actually gone backwards to recount for us pertinent lessons ofthe past. The bulk ofthe presentations have discussed industries or agents. I will not try to recapitulate all ...

Twenty years on.

Twenty years on.

One of the problems of moving to the USA to practise medicine is taking "finals" again. I don't mean the exam for an Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certificate, which is a one-day affair taken in the familiar surroundings of London or Edinburgh. Without the ECFMG, of course, one's chances of getting a visa to live in the USA are next to nil. But actually to practise a...

"four-and-twenty, Twenty-four". What's in a Number?

This paper investigates "what's in a number", i.e. how natural numbers are pronounced in several European languages. As regards reading numbers above 20, 29 languages read the decade first and then the digit, e.g. twenty-four, and 10 languages read the digit before the decade, e.g. four-and-twenty. Two languages, Norwegian and Czech, use both systems, and 9 languages use (partly) a vigesimal sy...

Cognitive Neuropsychology twenty years on.

Cognitive neuropsychology began in the second half of the nineteenth century when neurologists such as Lichtheim, Wernicke, Bastian, and others began to make inferences about the cognitive architecture of the intact language-processing system from studying the different ways in which spoken or written language abilities broke down after brain damage. They even began to express their proposals a...