Education is for everyone unless you are special

It is not safe unless everyone is aware.

This is a letter in response to article http://dx.doi.org/10. 1093/qjmed/hcu227. The authors inform us that the standardization of cupping therapy will reduce the occurrence of adverse effects and help promote the therapy. Cupping therapy or blood-letting therapy has been used for many centuries by well-known people including George Washington and Mozart. Now the celebrities of our current age ...

Everyone Is You... Or Me

In my youth I used to wander in the mountains. I would gain a "feel" of the terrain and gradually build up a reliable intuition of how to get from here to there and back again. Always, on these expeditions, I would discover special places a tiny area, the only one, where fairy slippers grew; a pool in a rushing stream that was deep enough to swim in. Invariably I would find myself excitedly cli...

Helmholtz illusion makes you look fit only when you are already fit, but not for everyone

A square filled with horizontal stripes is perceived as thinner than one with vertical stripes (Helmholtz illusion). This is not consistent with a common belief that horizontally striped clothing makes a person look fatter, and studies on this problem have shown inconsistent results. Here, we demonstrate three factors that could have complicated the issue. First, the Helmholtz effect is stronge...

NP-Hard Sets are Superterse Unless NP is Small

Trade Liberalisation is Good for You if You are Rich

This paper investigates the relationship between trade policy and growth using a dynamic panel regression model with GMM estimates for data on 44 developing countries over 1980-1999. Trade policy is captured by measures of tariffs, import and export taxes. Typically, the average effects of changes in such policy variables have been investigated. However, from a policy perspective, the different...