Taking It Out on the Dog

Stray Observations on Stone in the Bladder, and the Taking of It out

Taking the nicotine out of cigarettes--why it is a bad idea.

Sometimes, what seems to be an obvious commonsense idea canmake a bad situationmuchworse. One such idea is the removal of nicotine from tobacco products to make them less addictive. Nicotine is addictive, it is the reason why people smoke, and smoking tobacco without nicotine is no more appealing than smoking dried cabbage. And so, it is argued, why not use regulatory powers to require the grad...

Taking People out of the Network: A Deconstruction of "Your Next IT Strategy"

Web services are frequently discussed as "the next big thing" in information technology architecture. The picture painted by pundits, practitioners, IT vendors, and academics is appealing technically: Web service applications "exposed" to one another through standard protocols, navigating through an open infrastructure to search out counterparts over the Internet, with "seamless " integration a...

On the Cost and Benefit of Taking it out of Context: Modeling the Inhibition Associated with Directed Forgetting

Forgetting can occur as the result of unconscious or automatic memory processes or as the result of conscious control. The later form of forgetting is often referred to as suppression, repression, or inhibition, and it is investigated in the laboratory using the directed forgetting procedure. The authors describe and empirically test the first formal model of directed forgetting, implemented wi...

Taking the risk out of risk assessment.

Risk assessment is indeed a tried and tested management tool in industry that is new to the health service. Mary Spinks' article indicates that it is new to her, too (Patient safety, risky business, Features,June 29).