The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Existential Investigation: The Unbearable Lightness of Being and History

The unbearable lightness of being: CDMS versus XENON

The CDMS-II collaboration has reported 3 events in a Si detector, which are consistent with being nuclear recoils due to scattering of Galactic dark matter particles with a mass of ∼ 8.6 GeV and a cross-section on neutrons of ∼ 2 × 10−41 cm2. While a previous result from the XENON10 experiment has supposedly ruled out such particles as dark matter, we find by reanalysing the XENON10 data that t...

The unbearable lightness of breathing.

asthma but remains largely unexplained. The new concept of perturbed myosin binding within airway smooth muscle sheds light on the question of why airway narrowing is limited in the healthy lung and not in the asthmatic lung and points to unanticipated mechanisms through which lung development and allergic status may be major modulators of airway hyperresponsiveness. (J Allergy Clin Immunol 200...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being1

'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never like to give my background and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked, " Andy Warhol said. " It's not just that it's part of my image not to tell anything, it's just that I forget what I said the day before, and I have to make it all up over again. " The man described as " a serious artist whose posture was unseriousness " called himself ...

The unbearable lightness of MCI

The title of this Editorial, with apologies to Milan Kundera (Kundera, 1985) implies no lack of gravitas in the concept of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Rather, it refers to the current definitions of MCI being somewhat free-floating, loosely anchored to diagnostic frameworks, and more conceptual than operational. In their defense, we cannot completely obliterate the flexibility clinicians n...