Fanning the flames of non-conformity

Fanning the Flames of Reason Valedictory Lecture a Personal View of Logic Fanning the Flames

On 26 September 2014, Johan van Benthem, Professor of Pure and Applied Logic, delivered his valedictory lecture in the auditoriumof theUniversity of Amsterdam. Modern logic is the broad, exact science of information directed behaviour that plays an important role in connecting the humanities, exact sciences and social sciences at the university, and which forms the bedrock of our information so...

Fanning the flames: inflammation in cardiovascular diseases.

Fanning the flames of prejudice: the influence of specific incidental emotions on implicit prejudice.

Three experiments examined the impact of incidental emotions on implicit intergroup evaluations. Experiment 1 demonstrated that for unknown social groups, two negative emotions that are broadly applicable to intergroup conflict (anger and disgust) both created implicit bias where none had existed before. However, for known groups about which perceivers had prior knowledge, emotions increased im...

Metabolomic profiling of cardiac substrate utilization: fanning the flames of systems biology?

The astonishing observation that the human heart beats 100 000 times a day and cycles through up to 30 kg of ATP daily (the energy required to climb a 100-story building) vividly illustrates the pertinence of energy metabolism to both cardiac health and disease.1,2 A key determinant of the efficient energy generation capacity of the heart is the pattern of cardiac substrate utilization.3,4 Alth...

Reflections of a mid-career clinician educator--fanning the flames for teaching.

Family medicine educators today face vast challenges. Clinical demands and the lack of specific revenue streams for our educational mission are among the many threats to the commitment of our faculty to keep education in its rightful place of honor and value within our academic institutions. To preserve our historic and critical mission, it is imperative that we find ways to rekindle the passio...