Disobedient Bodies in Digital Surveillance: V for Vendetta as a Holy Grail of Political Agency

Searching for the Holy Grail?

Pursuing the "Holy Grail".

Over the past decade, several large, randomized trials have allowed us to better define the appropriate population for primary prevention implantable cardioverterdefibrillator (ICD) placement, saving thousands of lives every year. MADIT II (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial II) and SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial) have demonstrated a survival benefit o...

Food Taxes: A New Holy Grail?

In an effort to reduce the growing prevalence of overweight and obesity, food taxes have been introduced in several European countries, the so-called ‘obesitax’. As yet little evidence is at hand, policy measures are being taken to counterweight the consumption of unhealthy food or the increasing diet-related diseases. Several questions need to be discussed, starting from a general perspective:...

The Holy Grail of Psychiatry

"Holy Grail" is a well-known metaphor for the eternal spiritual pursuit for truth and wisdom. It suggests that in order for us to find what no one has found, we must search where few have looked. In 2013, a group led by Helen Mayberg published a groundbreaking paper that sought an answer to one of the most discussed conundrums in psychiatry and neuroscience: Can specific patterns of brain activ...

Prototyping for the Holy Grail of Rfid:

The suitability of application Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems in the supply chain has been discussed since the late nineties. Like any new innovation, there are advantages (in operational efficiencies), and disadvantages (in its implementation). The hype created by this innovation suggests that advantages outweighed the disadvantages. Yet, adoption has lagged most predictions. Th...