"Congress Shall Make No Law...": II

[The truth shall make you free].

Surprise ! ! No make - up classes !

Notre Dame and St. Mary's stu~dents will not have to make up class days missed as a result of the blizzard which began last Wednesday night and crippled much of the midwest. The announcement came yesterday as a joint decision from Fr. Ferdinand Brown, acting provost at Notre Dame, and Dr. James Duggan, St. Mary's president. Notre Dame announced yesterday that classes will resumf' today. St. Mar...

No Nonsense Neuro-law

In Minds, Brains, and Norms, Pardo and Patterson deny that the activities of persons (knowledge, rule-following, interpretation) can be understood exclusively in terms of the brain, and thus conclude that neuroscience is irrelevant to the law, and to the conceptual and philosophical questions that arise in legal contexts. On their view, such appeals to neuroscience are an exercise in nonsense. ...

Cockpit-cabin communication: II. Shall we tell the pilots?

In a previous article (Chute & Wiener, 1995), we explored the coordination between the "two cultures" in an airliner's crew: cockpit and cabin. In this article, we discuss a particular problem: the dilemma facing the cabin crew when they feel that they have safety-critical information and must decide whether to take it to the cockpit. We explore the reasons for the reluctance of the flight atte...

No Moore's Law for batteries.

The public has become accustomed to rapid progress in mobile phone technology, computers, and access to information; tablet computers, smart phones, and other powerful new devices are familiar to most people on the planet. These developments are due in part to the ongoing exponential increase in computer processing power, doubling approximately every 2 years for the past several decades. This p...