The milk was spilt some time ago

Spilt Milk

It was twenty years ago today

To mark the 20 th anniversary of the commencement of [email protected] (now arXiv.org), I've adapted this article from one 1 that first appeared in Physics World and was later reprinted (with permission) in Learned Publishing. This version is closer to my original draft, with some updates for this occasion, plus an astounding 2 5 added footnotes. 2 [email protected] received its first email...

Spilt Milk: An Unusual Cause of Bilateral Chylothorax.

We report a case of bilateral chylothorax without evidence of chylous fistula in a 62-year-old man following total laryngectomy and bilateral selective neck dissection for laryngeal cancer. Chylous fistulae, a well-known complication of neck dissection, occurs following 1% to 2% of these surgeries. On rare occasions, the chyle leak may communicate with the pleural space, resulting in chylothora...

How was the Hubble sequence 6 Gyrs ago ?

The way galaxies assemble their mass to form the well-defined Hubble sequence is amongst the most debated topic in modern cosmology. One difficulty is to link distant galaxies, that emitted their light several Gyrs ago, to those at present epoch. Such a link is affected by the evolution or the transformation of galaxies as well as by numerous selection and observational biases. We aim at establ...

Crying Over Spilt Milk: Sunk Costs, Fairness Norms and the Hold-up Problem

This article explores a possible connection between two behavioural anomalies in economics, the observed responsiveness of individual decision makers to sunk costs, and the apparent failure of backward induction to predict outcomes in experimental bargaining games. In particular, we show that under some conditions, a ‘sunk cost sensitive’ fairness norm can evolve in such environments. Under thi...