‘Here and There, Then and Now’: Envisioning a Palimpsest Methodology

From there to here, from now till then: buying and borrowing public management reforms

Most reformers don't invent completely new ideas they buy or borrow management ideas and techniques from elsewhere. They bring things from 'there' to 'here'. Merchants in this trade include governments, management consultants, international organizations and even some academics. Money changes hands, but that is not the only currency. Influence, prestige and status are also involved in these tra...

From here and now to there and then: the development of displaced reference in homesign and English.

An essential function of human language is the ability to refer to information that is spatially and temporally displaced from the location of the speaker and the listener, that is, displaced reference. This article describes the development of this function in 4 deaf children who were not exposed to a usable conventional language model and communicated via idiosyncratic gesture systems, called...

Re-envisioning the Chinese Cityscape: Tabula Rasa and Palimpsest

In 1958, Mao Zedong famously compared China's 600 million people to a " blank sheet of paper free from any mark, " on which " the most beautiful words can be written " and the " most beautiful pictures can be painted. " 1 In his view, China's vast landscapes and its people's mindscapes were a tabula rasa awaiting transformation through his utopian blueprints. Since the Chinese Communist Party (...

Schizophrenia: Then and Now

EPS—Then and Now

"Slime" played a brief and spectacular role in the 19th century founded by the theory of primordial slime by Ernst Haeckel. However, that substance was never found and eventually abandoned. Further scientific attention slowly began in the 1930s referring to slime as a microbial product and then was inspired by "How bacteria stick" by Costerton et al. in 1978, and the matrix material was conside...