Rich man, poor man

Rich Man, Poor Man: Socioeconomic Adversity and Brain Development

Editor's Note: Here's a disturbing statistic that made headlines this past January: The richest 85 people in the world now hold as much wealth as the poorest half. Keeping in mind the goal of closing the ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, our author examines new research that ties family income level and other factors to brain development. While socioeconomic adversity may n...

Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief – but Who Is Who in the Capitalist Economy

The thesis of this paper is that a free-market capitalist economy is biased against supplying basic needs of poor consumers and also biased against creating inventing and using green technology. We begin by identifying the patterns of perverse logic in the system of market supply and in the process of technological advance under capitalism. The first pivotal problem is that economic decision ma...

Cystic Lung Disease in a Young man

A 32-year-old man was admitted in the Emergency Department with acute dyspnea secondary to spontaneous pneumothorax. He had history of spontaneous pneumothorax 2 years ago.He was active cigarette smoker (10 pack/year). The family history was unremarkable for lung diseases. Additionally, he had no systemic complaints.The lung HRCT revealed multiple bizarre-shaped cysts distributed in both lungs ...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

An Introduction to Emotionally Rich Man-machine Intelligent Systems

In this paper we present issues regarding the development of an artificial system that will register its user’s emotional state and act accordingly. We discuss these issues in the context of the ERMIS project. ERMIS stands for Emotion-Rich Man-machine Interaction Systems. ERMIS is a useful context because the project sets out to explore what we regard as the natural approach to developing an em...