Tourist pressure grows

Tourist pressure grows

On New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest aircraft, a Qantas Airbus A380 will set off for a 9,000 kilometre round trip over the Antarctic for tourists to enjoy the spectacular scenery. These tourists will leave a very large carbon footprint, even without landing on the continent, but there is additional, increasing concern about the growing pressure from cruise ships and other tourists wish...

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy

Bioethics Grows Up

W hen I taught my first course in bioethics to first-year students at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in the spring semester of 1981, bioethics was still in its formative years. There were scant few textbooks around and even fewer anthologies, and I could not assume that any of my students had ever read anything by a bioethicist or about bioethics. The key institutions ...

The Mind Grows Circuits

There is a vast supply of prior art that study models for mental processes. Some studies in psychology and philosophy approach it from an inner perspective in terms of experiences and percepts. Others such as neurobiology or connectionist-machines approach it externally by viewing the mind as complex circuit of neurons where each neuron is a primitive binary circuit. In this paper, we also mode...

Asperger Syndrome Grows Up.PDF

This article introduces the "basic level reader" to Asperger Syndrome (AS), with primary emphasis placed upon adults. The first and longest part of the article reviews the diagnostic criteria for AS, and covers its manifestations under each of five primary characteristics. The second part of this article briefly reviews related medical conditions common to children and adults with AS. The third...