PLANT SCIENCE: Less and More

Less is more… (more or less…).

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...

TOWARD A MODEL-CENTERED STRATEGY SCIENCE: More Experiments, Less History

* Substantially revised from a presentation at the Fourth International Conference on Competence-Based Management, Oslo, Norway, June 18–21, 1998, “Can Strategy be Better than Acupuncture: A Realist/Semantic Conception of Competence-Based Research.” I wish to give special thanks to Shelby Hunt and other conference participants for comments on the earlier version. I also need to recognize the ma...

Industry Induces Academic Science to Know Less about More

Learning our L.I.M.I.T.S.: less is more in teaching science.

The rapid and accelerating pace of change in physiology and cell biology, along with the easy access to huge amounts of content, have altered the playing field for science students, yet most students are still mainly taught from textbooks. Of necessity, textbooks are usually broad in scope, cover topics much more superficially than do journal articles, and present the scientific process as a li...

Less Is More, More the Merrier, or More From Less?

P hysicians deal with uncertainty all the time and chest pain in the emergency department (ED) is a typical example. Traditionally, coronary artery disease (CAD), pulmonary embolism (PE), and aortic dissection can present as chest pain, and the consequences of a missed diagnosis can be devastating, with the potential for rapid deterioration, and serious risk of morbidity and mortality. Moreover...