Professor J A Simpson--an appreciation

Professor J H Peacock

Professor Robert F. Borkenstein - Appreciation of His Life and Work.

Few men have made such a significant and sustained contribution to their chosen field of endeavor as Robert F. Borkenstein. He is an international forensic science celebrity, highly respected by his peers. The two most well-known products of his brilliance are the Breathalyzer, invented in 1954, and the "Grand Rapids Study", a seminal work which established the relative risk of being involved i...

An Appreciation.

I'm worried about my paper. " I had a 25-page seminar paper due in less than two weeks. I'd turned in an eight-page proposal, with an outline and an annotated bibliography, and it had been severely and accurately critiqued by the class the day before. It's spring semester, my first year in graduate school at Indiana University. I'd considered myself a poet—I was getting a Masters in Fine Arts—b...

An appreciation

Qing Zou asked me to contribute some remarks introductory to the book that follows. I have not read it. I have indeed only seen a relatively small number of pages. Moreover, although in the course of my career as a mathematician and, in general, in the course of my life, I have acquired a working knowledge of several languages, Chinese in any of its forms is not one of them. Consequently I have...

An Appreciation

For [contemporary] social anthropologists, the important conclusion, always worth repeating, is that the observation and the labelling of 'behaviour' are inseparable from the importation of socially derived meanings even when observing monkeys. How much more so when the process is reflexive, when the observers and the observed are both 'meaning-makers' ... Edwin Ardener, 1977: Comprehending Oth...