Let the Journey Begin

Let the patient revolution begin.

A hundred years ago George Bernard Shaw lambasted the medical profession as a conspiracy against the laity. Today, disease and doctor centric health systems that are costly, wasteful, fragmented, and too often uncaring are provoking similar ire. Despite the best intentions and undoubted skill of many who work within healthcare, access to care, and its quality, vary markedly, and most people in ...

Let the Games Begin: Civic Playing on High-Tech Consoles

The author presents an overview of an emerging field that looks at the impact of video games on civic engagement. Some video games have explicit civics-related content and engage players in simulations of civically related projects, but most others do not. However, research has shown that video game playing engages players in civically oriented experiences that previous research has found to pr...

Settling short on tobacco. Let the trials begin.

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Don ’ t Just Begin with “ Let A be an algebra ... ”

Rota would urge you to give away the secret handshakes, the punchlines, the achievement and the contribution, the location within the research literature, all in the first page or so. And if the title is less cute but more informative, so much the better. Rota’s strategies, besides summarizing the contents of the paper, include informal and up-front introduction of notions that are novel in thi...

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.