Preface: The Future is Now: Common Problems, Common Threads

The Common Now

The manifest image is teeming with activity. Objects are booming and buzzing by, changing their locations and properties, vivid perceptions are replaced, and we seem to be inexorably slipping into the future. Time—or at least our experience in time— seems a very turbulent sort of thing. By contrast, time in the scientist image seems very still. The fundamental laws of physics don’t differentiat...

Genome-wide association studies of common obesity: now and future.

Obesity has become a major public health concern worldwide. Obesity is a complex disease influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Epidemiological studies have indicated that environmental factors, such as excessive energy intake and lack of physical activity, might contribute to the development of obesity. Genetic factors also play an important role in the pathogenesis of obesity. ...

The Common Threads in Program Evaluation

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

The Future Is Now

March 2012 A 101 In 1972 David P. Rall, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), determined there was a need for a journal dedicated to research on human health and the environment, and Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) was born. The journal published monographs on topics related to environmental human health and research papers based on conference proc...