Rod Stewart Is Everywhere

Mathematics is everywhere

“Mathematics is everywhere” is the title for a panel at ICM 2014. The four panelists discuss what can be put under this title, what are the messages that can be passed to the public, and how to pass these messages. To most mathematicians, it seems obvious that mathematics is everywhere, and a living discipline within science and technology. Yet, how many of them are able to convey the message? ...

Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere.

Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But such notions of merit-based distributive justice may be culturally constructed norms that vary with the social and economic structure of a group. In the present research, we showed that children from three different cultures have very different i...

Polio anywhere is a risk everywhere.

The 2014 diagnosis of poliomyelitis-like illness in a middle-aged Victorian man on his return to Australia after working in the Horn of Africa, highlights the possibility of poliovirus being imported into any country while the virus circulates anywhere.1 This possibility is also illustrated by Australia’s last confirmed incursion of poliovirus. In 2007 a Melbourne university student was confirm...

Microbial biogeography : is everything small everywhere ?

Is sickle cell disease the same everywhere?

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is the most common genetic disease in Brazil where 4% of the general population carries the sickle cell gene and it is estimated that one out of 1000 live births have the disease (1,2). Although most complications of SCD in children are well-known and understood, they were mostly studied in North American, European, and Caribbean Children, and there is still paucity of...