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The rites of spring
Every spring I get depressed. Last month I had the stunning realization that graduate student recruitment is a major cause of my spring depression. Each year, as the days lengthen, graduate programs engage in their ritualistic seduction of prospective students. In the past 15 years, US institutions, including the most elite and respected, have evolved mating displays worthy of birds and fish. T...
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In Britain today, between twenty and thirty thousand human beings exist abandoned and forgotten in hospitals for the mentally subnormal. There are over 60,000 patients in these hospitals and surveys in many of them have shown that from a third to a half of their patients are never visited. A few patients, irrespective of the severity of their mental condition, have regular and faithful visitors...
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Alas, poor Darwin. By all rights, 2009 should be his year, as books, museums, and scholarly conclaves celebrate his 200th birthday (Feb. 12) and the 150th anniversary of “On the Origin of Species” (Nov. 24), the book that changed forever how man views himself and the creation. Teamed with genetics, Darwin’s explanation of how species change through time has become the rock on which biology stan...
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It is the charge of economic history not only to explain the economic past, but to use it to enrich and develop economic theory (North, 1994). In paleoeconomics, theory plays the additional role of adding veracity of accounts based on sparse evidence through the demonstration of internal consistency. We synthesize pre-historical and historical evidence available from the settlement and moderniz...
متن کاملScene 2—Take 1
South Ockendon subnormality hospital in Essex has had its unfair share of bad publicity recently. An allegation of cruelty by a nurse and the manslaughter of one patient by another led to news reports?some of which have been angled to hurt the staff?and, predictably, morale within the hospital has suffered badly. The outburst of righteous indignation which followed the Ely Hospital Report made ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: eLife
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2050-084X
DOI: 10.7554/elife.16846