John Dewey: A Look at His Contributions to Curriculum

Defining Reflection: Another Look at John Dewey and Reflective Thinking

Thinking, particularly reflective thinking or inquiry, is essential to both teachers’ and students’ learning. In the past 10 to 15 years numerous commissions, boards, and foundations as well as states and local school districts have identified reflection0 inquiry as a standard toward which all teachers and students must strive. However, although the cry for accomplishment in systematic, reflect...

On John McCarthy's 80th Birthday, in Honor of His Contributions

ence and artificial intelligence are legendary. He invented Lisp, made substantial contributions to early work in timesharing and the theory of computation, and was one of the founders of artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. This article, written in honor of McCarthy’s 80th birthday, presents a brief biography, an overview of the major themes of his research, and a discussion o...

A retrospective look at the medical curriculum.

The Baconian concept that knowledge makes perfect and more knowledge makes more perfect is no longer feasible. The quantity and rate with which new information is being added is phenomenal. Moreover, the whole field is in a state of flux. Concepts are being discarded to be replaced by new ones and facts are piling up. The “Learner’s load has become impossible.” Educationists including those inv...

Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics.

John Briggs: A closer look at HIV and coated vesicles

A s HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) exits an infected cell, it buds off from the cell surface, enclosed in an envelope derived from the cell's plasma membrane. The viral protein Gag is essential for this process: multiple Gag proteins assemble into a lattice beneath the cell membrane that promotes membrane curvature and virus budding. This lattice is also found in immature viral particles, for...