East Berlin risks grows

A cottage hospital grows up: the story of the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead

E J Dennison was a GP at the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1938 to 1977 and is similarly devoted to its history. This updated version of his book, first published in 1963, provides an institutional account of an unusual hospital with several histories. A cottage hospital existed at East Grinstead from 1863 to 1874. From 1888 a new hospital developed, via two relocations, into a modest 36 bed fac...

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy

Bioethics Grows Up

W hen I taught my first course in bioethics to first-year students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring semester of 1981, bioethics was still in its formative years. There were scant few textbooks around and even fewer anthologies, and I could not assume that any of my students had ever read anything by a bioethicist or about bioethics. The key institutions ...

The Mind Grows Circuits

There is a vast supply of prior art that study models for mental processes. Some studies in psychology and philosophy approach it from an inner perspective in terms of experiences and percepts. Others such as neurobiology or connectionist-machines approach it externally by viewing the mind as complex circuit of neurons where each neuron is a primitive binary circuit. In this paper, we also mode...

Melting Pots: Berlin Digital meets Berlin Culture

Forming, storming, norming and performing [1] – a well-known phase-modulation model of team building is probably reliable to describe the changeful relationship of Berlin Cultural and Berlin Digital in the Melting Pot of the metropolis. The pretty, shy bride awkwardly meets a nerdy, hyperactive groom when after the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989, the wedding looms on the horizon:...