Should you “just say 'no'”?

Ray Kurzweil and Uploading: Just Say No!

There is a debate about the possibility of mind-uploading – a process that purportedly transfers human minds and therefore human identities into computers. This paper bypasses the debate about the metaphysics of mind-uploading to address the rationality of submitting yourself to it. I argue that an ineliminable risk that mind-uploading will fail makes it prudentially irrational for humans to un...

Communicating Microbiology Results. It’s Not Just What You Say, But How You Say It

959. Communicating Microbiology Results. It’s Not Just What You Say, But How You Say It Mary Musgrove, PharmD; Rachel M Kenney, PharmD; Ronald Kendall, PharmD; Robert Tibbetts, PhD D(ABMM), F(CCM); Linoj Samuel, PhD., D(ABMM); Mike Peters, PharmD, BCPS; Susan Davis, PharmD; Pharmacy, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, W...

It’s not just what you say but when you say it: Self-presentation and temporal construal

Three experiments demonstrated that the use and effectiveness of self-presentation strategies are affected by time. In Experiment 1, participants used more indirect self-presentation statements for the distant than near future, but used more direct self-presentation statements for the near than distant future. In Experiment 2, participants for whom indirect self-presentation strategies were mad...

Why we should "just say no" to exclusive "abstinence-only" funding.

Just say no to the charges against you: alcohol intoxication, mental capacity, and criminal responsibility.

There have been many studies showing a high correlation between crime and alcohol use. Even the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-111-R) cites that one significant complication of "alcohol intoxication" is its "frequent association with the commission of criminal acts."' Specifically, the DSM-111-R points out that "more than one-half o...