"Verie Devout Asses": The Stupid Puritan Clown

It's the Anthropology, Stupid!

These virtual machines communicate in turn with a number of virtual servers in various clouds. Your work machine talks to a corporate cloud and to services run by subcontractors such as safesforce.com. Your play machine might, according to taste, talk to an assortment of game servers, porn servers or bridge clubs. Your serious personal machine will talk to your bank; you might have other machin...

Book Review: Pratiquer l'ACT par le Clown [ACT through Clown]

It is the Cooperation, Stupid!

The rise of aesthetics in medicine has resulted from society's acknowledgement of the importance of physical beauty. This has led to an emerging conflict between allied specialties. The author introduces the concept of "Aesthetic Socialism" according to which everyone should have an opportunity to enhance or restore the beauty where it is missing or when it is lost due to disease, trauma or age...

AIDS: "it's the bacteria, stupid!".

Acid-fast tuberculous mycobacterial infections are common in AIDS and are regarded as secondary "opportunistic infections." According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, TB is the major attributable cause of death in AIDS patients. Could such bacteria play a primary or causative role in AIDS? Certainly, In screening tests for HIV, there is frequent, up to 70%, cross-re...

Identifying Individual Clown Fish

This paper presents a clustering approach to estimating the number of individuals present in a set of Amphiprion clarkii (clownfish) observed live from a Taiwanese coral reef. Previous approaches to individual identification have addressed species where there are many individuals with some distinctive pattern and few observations of each. By contrast, fish observations from a fixed camera tend ...