Some surprises and mistakes

Ebooks: Some Concerns and Surprises

Many librarians believe that the publication of Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet will be a turning point in the history of libraries. Until its publication, electronic books represented an alternative to paper-based books, not a replacement for them. But the success of King’s ebook-only novella demonstrated that a title could be a bestseller without the author ever putting ink to paper, and man...

Some Post-Mortem Surprises

mous liver weighing nearly no ounces in which apparently the whole of the normal tissue had been replaced by a primary carcinoma. A somewhat similar case was that of a woman, fifty-one years of age, who also dropped dead in the street; she had no medical history, and yet at the post-mortem examination we found an abdomen apparently solid with an ovarian carcinoma, in which the coils of both lar...

Proyecto Joven New Solutions and Some Surprises

Some Avoidable Lie-Detector Mistakes

Some Mistakes in Thinking about Affirmative Action*

Once I was a member of a university council that, among other things, played "watchdog" when decisions were being made regarding whom to appoint to high places in the univeristy administration. One of my colleague's favorite points was that if a candidate hedged with a "yes and no" or a "yes, but..." to the query, "Would you support affirmative action?", such a response should be taken as prima...