The Mid-Career Demon

The Paradox of Transformative Learning Among Mid-Career Professionals

Royal Roads University (RRU) is a special purpose university in British Columbia, Canada. Since 1995, this university has focused primarily on multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary graduate education for working professionals. Most programs are offered in a blended online and face-to-face format, which enables adult learners to continue in their professions while they pursue their studies. While...

Mid-career burnout in generalist and specialist physicians.

The debasing demon

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Mendel's demon

on the shelves of any evolutionary biologist or student of the subject and you are likely to see a textbook by Mark Ridley. But Ridley, formerly at Emory University in Atlanta, and now in Oxford, has had another book in his mind for quite some time. He believes there are some ideas sparked by the Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, that are of broader interest and has set out to explore some of them ...

Maxwell’s Demon

This problem is prob. 2 of [1]. One of the earliest conceptual “supercomputers” was Maxwell’s Demon [2], who uses intelligence in sorting molecules to appear to evade the Second Law of Thermodynamics. To place the demon in a computational context, consider a computer “memory” that consists of a set of boxes (bits), each of volume V and each containing a single molecule. A (re)movable partition ...