The Ovicaprine Mystique: Livestock Commodification in Postindustrial Lesotho

Livestock, livelihoods and vulnerability in Lesotho, Malawi and Zambia: Designing livestock interventions for emergency situations

The Second Law Mystique

Over fifty years ago Arthur Eddington wrote [1]: " The second law of thermodynamics holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations – then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation, well, these experimentalists do bungle t...

The Mystique of Epigenetics

position effect variegation (in which the probability of Epigenetic effects have often enough been viewed as inactivation of a gene translocated to a position near verging on the mystical. It is a paradox of conventional heterochromatin decreases with its distance from hetgenetics that two alleles can have the same genetic erochromatin). One of the characteristics of a state that sequence but s...

The mystique of hepatic tolerogenicity.

The evolution of clinical transplantation has hinged on 2 seminal turning points. The first was the demonstration in 1953 by Billingham, Brent, and Medawar that chimerism-associated tolerance could be induced deliberately in neonatal mice by infusing adult donor hematolymphopoietic cells. This discovery escalated in a straight line over the next 15 years to successful bone marrow transplantatio...

The mystique of direct laryngoscopy.

Direct laryngoscopy and intubation is easy to define and conceptually very simple. A short, rigid instrument deflects the tongue and jaw, enabling a direct line of sight to the larynx and placement of a tube into the trachea. Historically, laryngoscopy has been taught to all providers of emergency care and resuscitation. It is the predominant intubation method in emergency care and, despite the...