Preventive medicine makes us miserable

How Would God Have Us Practice Preventive Medicine

Preventive medicine is widely popular today. The government hopes through it to solve its rising health care bill. Private industry, which pays the bulk of health insurance premiums, has the same hopes. Physicians are finding in the popular concept an opportunity to protect their incomes while in good conscience protecting their patients' health. Christians are proponents of it because it seems...

What makes us human ?

What makes us human?

To RSVP or for more information, please call Daniel Leonardich at 415.734.2080 or email [email protected] Science for Life lectures are free with open seating. Parking is available across the street in the UCSF Rutter Center garage. Co-sponsored by San Francisco Conservatory of Music cellist Erin Wang will share with us a brief discussion of “evolution” from baroque through contempora...

What makes us human?

The title of this report was the theme of the 7th Oxford International Biomedical Centre (OIBC) Symposium, just a few months after the publication of a paper suggesting that the genus Pan (including the chimpanzee and the bonobo) should be merged with the genus Homo. It has been realised for many years that the chimpanzee is our nearest living relative, and recent DNA studies have strengthened ...

Miserable and strongly miserable impartial games

An impartial game is called (strongly) miserable if its normal and misère versions differ just slightly; more precisely, if some (all) zeros and ones of the Sprague-Grundy (SG) functions swap, while all larger values remain the same. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for (strong) miserability and show that NIM, Wythoff’s NIM, and game Euclid are miserable but not strongly miserable,...