Programmed to be Human?

Programmed to be Human?

Pletikos et al. (2014) demonstrate in this issue of Neuron that the human neocortex has an "hourglass" temporal gene expression pattern with robust and dynamic transcriptome differences during the prenatal and adolescent/adult periods. Similar changes are not observed in the nonhuman primate-is this what makes us human?

Paying People to Be Healthy

User Financial Incentives (UFIs) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. Strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. However, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. Implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

Human ILC1: To Be or Not to Be

Human Respiration: A Programmed Course

Dr. Lippold in his book, Human Respiration, offers a new approach to the teaching of respiratory physiology. Designed with the student's point of view in mind, he utilizes a novel method of programming to introduce the basic concepts of respiratory physiology. Throughout the book, the author correlates pathological and clinical situations with the basic physiological mechanisms. Furthermore, he...

A Struggle to be Human

This paper draws on doctoral research that explores boys’ understandings of masculinity. It reports on a doctoral study conducted in an all boys’ Australian, secondary college with almost 300 Year 12 students. This paper presents boys’ descriptions of the qualities they consider make for masculinity and the processes involved in becoming masculine. It highlights the dichotomy experienced by som...