María Zambrano y Fernando Pessoa: I know not what tomorrow will bring

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...

Health psychology: what will the future bring?

This commentary highlights several important themes and trends in this series of articles focusing on the future of health psychology. First, the challenges posed by changes in populations will only be met if health psychologists can develop a contextual competency. Second, with increasing evidence for the efficacy of health psychology interventions comes heightened interest in testing the effe...

What we shall know only tomorrow.

In contrast to a widely held belief among politicians and science managers, the course of science is unpredictable and difficult to steer. The reason is that management is based on the knowledge of today, whereas science is about the knowledge of tomorrow. As Sir Karl Popper (1957) remarked: ‘‘We cannot anticipate today what we shall know only tomorrow.’’ Anyone who specifies the key issues in ...

I Know What I Know

How important is software construction? Software construction has been the awkward stepchild of software engineering for decades. This puzzles me because software construction is the only activity that’s guaranteed to be done on every project. Code is the center of the software universe. Process advocates tend to downplay coding, focusing more on the documentation that occurs before and after c...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet