Some Reflections on Disciplines and Curricula

Some reflections on talc poudrage.

We read with interest the well researched article of Stefani et al. [1] about the different techniques of intrapleural talc. This technical paper really filled the gap in our knowledge following established evidences of superiority of the talc itself [2,3] over other products. We have a question and two comments. Could we be provided with data on the size of the talc particles? This intriguing ...

Some reflections on racial profiling.

of the Editor. The authors were invited specifically to critique, or use as a stimulus, an article that appeared in the New York Times Magazine (June 20, 1999). The article, entitled "The Color of Suspicion" and authored by Jeffrey Goldberg, was an analysis of the practice that has come to be commonly known as racial profiling, articulated by Goldberg as "the stopping and searching of blacks be...

Some Reflections on Newton’s ‘Principia’

We examine the text of Principia to discover the extent to which Newton’s claims about his own contribution to it were justified. We argue that the general Scholium, written twenty six years after the first edition, substantially misrepresents the main body of the text for polemical reasons. We discuss papers of Wallis, Wren and Huygens that use the third law of motion, as stated by Newton in B...

Some recollections and reflections on mutation rates.

I take this opportunity to record some of my own In general, the growth rate of a bacterial strain may be recollections of the work on mutation in the 1940s and within very wide limits independent of the concentration early 1950s that was so influential in the development of a given growth factor; but since at zero concentration of quantitative biology. In 1943, Luria and Delbrück the growth ra...

Some Informal Reflections on Rijndael and Twofish