Knowledge Society and Third Way

The Semantic Web Paving the Way to the Knowledge Society

The European Commission opens in its 7th IST call for proposals an action line for Semantic Web Technologies. It builds on ideas that have been looming for many years but have received their greatest push when the World Wide Web Consortium set up an interest group on that theme. The Semantic Web aims to make content machine understandable in order to automate a wide range of new tasks within th...

A Third Way for Health Policy?

Economics has hit the mainstream in the last decade with popular books like Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist reaching the masses. These authors have used their toolkits far beyond the narrow scope of money and finance and answered questions pertaining to anything from social policy to demographics to crime. Their appeal has largely been their ability to explain that small underlying fo...

Third Way Movements

Golgi Governance: The Third Way

It is a subject of intense debate whether proteins are transported by vesicles through the membranous stacks of the Golgi or whether the stacks mature, carrying the cargo along. In this issue, Patterson et al. (2008) present evidence for a third model in which the Golgi stacks are a continuous structure and proteins rapidly equilibrate between the layers.

The Portuguese Socialists and the Third Way