Riding the Cassville Ferry

A ferry between cultures

the new field of research into the ethical, legal and social aspects of scientific and technological developments (ElSa) is rapidly becoming a professional field with grants, research programmes and university departments devoted to it. at first glance, ElSa seems to be a new development intended to address questions and challenges that arise from advances in the natural sciences. the professio...

Workstations : ferry Werner MCC

Workstation processing power and the number of available workstation application tools have increased dramatically in the last five years. Sophisticated users now find that "real work" can be accomplished on CAD/CAE workstations. In "Conversion of an IC Design Capability from a Mainframe to a Workstation Environment," Dave Palmer and John Wisniewski from Sandia National Laboratories recount the...

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

Riding with the ants

Isolates of Teratosphaeriaceae have frequently been found in the integument of attine ants, proving to be common and diverse in this microenvironment. The LSU phylogeny of the ant-isolated strains studied revealed that they cluster in two main lineages. The first was associated with the genus Xenopenidiella whereas the other represented two ant-isolated lineages sister to the taxa Penidiella ag...

Riding the South Sea Bubble

Riding the South Sea Bubble PETER TEMIN AND HANS-JOACHIM VOTH FORTHCOMING, AER, DECEMBER 2004. ABSTRACT: This paper presents a case study of a well-informed investor in the South Sea bubble. We argue that Hoare's Bank, a fledgling West End London banker, knew that a bubble was in progress and nonetheless invested in the stock; it was profitable to "ride the bubble." Using a unique dataset on da...