Odd Man in

Odd man out: Reply to reviewers

Article history: Available online 25 July 2008 This is the author’s reply to three very different reviews of Mind As Machine: A history of Cognitive Science (Vols 1–2). Two of the reviews, written by Paul Thagard and Jerry Feldman, engage with the book seriously. The third, by Noam Chomsky, does not. It is a sadly unscholarly piece, guaranteed to mislead its readers about both the tone and the ...

The Odd Man Out: The Kings in Corneille's Machine Plays

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The odd man out in Sub-Saharan Africa: understanding the tobacco use prevalence in Madagascar

BACKGROUND The tobacco industry has globalized and tobacco use continues to increase in low- and middle-income countries. Yet, the data and research to inform policy initiatives for addressing this phenomenon is sparse. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of adult tobacco use in 17 Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, and to identify key factors associated with adult tobacco consumption c...

A seizure and odd behaviour in a 79-year-old man.

The underlying aetiology of PCI, ie, mesenteric ischaemia or bowel infarction, is then the presenting disease. The natural course of PCI, except when it is secondary to bowel ischaemia, is usually benign. It has been suggested that gross pneumatosis and pneumatosis lasting longer than a few days also implies a benign course. Many cysts disappear spontaneously and may never come to notice. The d...