Two-month moratorium

Harmful moratorium on stem cell research.

Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol

Bill Crowther’s RFC No. 67 raised a much more fundamental issue than the question of marking. Any change to presently established protocol is going to involve changes in the hardware/software development efforts that have, in some instances, been going on for over 6 months. In the case of Multics, this effort has yielded programs either complete or in the advanced debugging stages. This is no d...

The H5N1 Moratorium Controversy and Debate

The pause in gain-of-function experiments involving highly pathogenic avian influenza virus to dissect mechanisms of mammalian transmission and virulence is a historic moment for science. The scientific community and the greater society that it serves are currently engaged in a vigorous debate on whether and how to carry out experiments that could provide essential information for preparedness ...

Melody recognition by two-month-old infants.

Music is part of an infant's world even before birth, and caregivers around the world sing to infants. Yet, there has been little research into the musical abilities or preferences of infants younger than 5 months. In this study, the head turn preference procedure used with older infants was adapted into an eye-movement preference procedure so that the ability of 2-month-old infants to remember...

Moratorium on mayhem lest there be a requiem.

A warm summer evening, June 25, 1965, and resident in medicine, Nick Pinheiro, was seated at his favorite tasca in Porto enjoying Portugal’s outstanding seafare and a bottle of chilled vinho verde. This had become Nick’s usual haunt on Friday evenings and he now knew most of the staff including Carlos, a waiter whose hoarse voice and slurred speech made deciphering the evening’s specials a chal...