Real-World Synthetic Biology: Is It Founded on an Engineering Approach, and Should It Be?

Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, and What It Should Be

What Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the current time is not what it should be. The mainstream works in the field are on domain-specific problems and solutions. Instead, AI should focus on general-purpose systems that are adaptive to its environment, and can work with insufficient knowledge and resources. AI in this sense is unified with Cognitive Science at a general level, with the latter ...

Tigecycline: what is it, and where should it be used?

Tigecycline is the first glycylcycline to be launched and is one of the very few new antimicrobials with activity against Gram-negative bacteria. It evades acquired efflux and target-mediated resistance to classical tetracyclines, but not chromosomal efflux in Proteeae and Pseudomonas. Cmax+ is low, but tissue penetration is excellent and the compound has shown equivalence to imipenem/cilastati...

Corporate Democracy – What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Should Be

2 See, e.g., Stephen Deane, The ISS Institute for Corporate Governance, Majority Voting in Director Elections: From the Symbolic to the Democratic, at 1 (noting that advocates who favor majority voting in director elections view the issue as a “question of democratic principle” and, if implemented, majority voting “would transform the current symbolic process, in which shareholders can withhold...

The Real World: What Good Is It?

stepdad got a job in Ohio, so she had to move there. So she was in Ohio and she invited me up for a weekend. And I’ve always Any experimental science runs the risk of implosion. had so much fun when I’d go up there for a weekend. But, it The tasks that were created as surrogates for compliwas like my cousin’s graduation party was then, too—like on cated real-world situations can take on lives o...

“pain relief is an essential human right”, we should be concerned about it