Income inequality and support for redistributive policies in Ontario: Who gets what, where, how, and who cares?

Who Cares about Racial Inequality?

I have been known over the years as a critic of affirmative action policies. However, in the wake of a successful ballot initiative banning affirmative action in the state of California, I now find it necessary to reiterate the old, and in my view still valid, arguments on behalf of explicit public efforts to reduce racial inequality. In doing so, I want to stress that I am not defending racial...

What is cherry red, and who cares?

Metabolic sensing and the brain: who, what, where, and how?

Unique subpopulations of specialized metabolic sensing neurons reside in a distributed network throughout the brain and respond to alterations in ambient levels of various metabolic substrates by altering their activity. Variations in local brain substrate levels reflect their transport across the blood- and cerebrospinal-brain barriers as well as local production by astrocytes. There are a num...

Faculty development: who, what, why, where, when, and how?

Developing people — helping them become more capable, conscientious, and confident — is the fundamental mission of any academic institution. It is what they do and why they exist. At health professions colleges and schools, faculty members spend much of their time communicating the accumulated knowledge, skills, and values of the profession and providing structured opportunities for learners to...

Role-based System Administration or Who, What, Where, and How

Traditionally, access for performing system administration tasks is an all or nothing proposition. With root access, an administrator can potentially make many changes to a system even though you may only want to allow them to add a user or mount a filesystem. In addition to specific tasks, you may want to control what tasks an administrator can perform based on which machine they are using. Fo...