I Never Thought I Had “Moral Courage,” until COVID-19 Happened

Oops , I thought that those books had been deacidified

Major libraries have been placing increasing reliance upon non-aqueous mass deacidification in an effort to avoid hydrolytic decomposition of the cellulose during storage of bound volumes. Such decomposition is especially a problem when the printing papers used in manufacture of the books have been prepared under acidic conditions, using aluminum sulfate. But there is reason to doubt that the w...

I Had a Dream : AAAI Presidential Address , 19 August 1985

Twenty-five years ago I had a dream, a daydream, if you will. A dream shared with many of you. I dreamed of a special kind of computer, which had eyes and ears and arms and legs, in addition to its “brain.” I did not dream that this new computer friend would be a means of making money for me or my employer or a help for my country-though I loved my country then and still do, and I have no objec...

I have had enough!

I apologize for making some of you nervous, and perhaps even resentful, but I HAVE HAD ENOUGH! I do not like the new unethical face of my profession, where incessant seeking of more money has replaced service to the public, honesty, and self-respect. Numerous areas of major ethical concern in dentistry are identified in this article. The ongoing, if not accelerating, degeneration of professiona...

If I had...Cataract.

in some cities in the USA,6 but the general level of health consciousness and the public attitude to family medicine and emergency care are so different in the USA that it is far from clear that American experience is relevant to the United Kingdom. The number of lives that MCCUs can be expected to save in the United Kingdom is therefore small, so establishing MCCU services on a wider basis mus...

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