Commentary: Keep it short and keep it cold-ish

Commentary: Epidemiology? Keep it broad and deep.

Keep It Simple

league will ask, ‘So what?’ Again, you don’t have to ask that yourself, but if you did and couldn’t answer it, you’re in trouble. 6. Remember that your talk or writing really works on two levels, one where you make your point and a second where your ‘metacommentary’ explains to your students or colleagues how and how not to take it, using phrases of the ‘What I’m saying’ or ‘What I’m not saying...

Keep it in Mind

Quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli expressed disdain for sloppy, nonsensical theories by denigrating them as “not even wrong,” meaning they were just empty conjectures that could be quickly dismissed. Unfortunately, many remarkably popular theories of consciousness are of this ilk—the idea, for instance, that our experiences can somehow be explained by the quantum theory that Pauli himself helped...

Keep it Fair: Equivalences

For models of concurrent and distributed systems, it is important and also challenging to establish correctness in terms of safety and/or liveness properties. Theories of distributed systems consider equivalences fundamental, since they (1) preserve desirable correctness characteristics and (2) often allow for component substitution making compositional reasoning feasible. Modeling distributed ...

Laser acupuncture: keep it scientific.

Laser acupuncture is a rapidly developing discipline with a growing research basis. This wedding between laser and acupuncture, as in most marriages, is ‘‘for better or worse;’’usually with some of both. Like laser therapy, acupuncture can be approached scientifically; that is, one can describe its mechanisms of action with contemporary biomedical terminology. Abundant evidence exists regarding...