Washing our hands

Washing our hands of the congenital cytomegalovirus disease epidemic

BACKGROUND Each year in the United States, an estimated 40,000 children are born with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, causing an estimated 400 deaths and leaving approximately 8000 children with permanent disabilities such as hearing or vision loss, or mental retardation. More children are affected by serious CMV-related disabilities than by several better-known childhood maladies, ...

On washing hands.

The new macro models : washing our hands and watching for icebergs

The 1960s were an exciting time – at least for macroeconomic modelers. An impressive new kind of macroeconometric model was entering central banking, and cutting-edge central banks were beginning to analyze policy as a problem of optimal control. The December 1965 edition of Time, the popular U.S. news magazine, has Keynes on the cover, quotes the experts of the day extensively, and is almost g...

Using our hands to change our minds.

Jean Piaget was a master at observing the routine behaviors children produce as they go from knowing less to knowing more about at a task, and making inferences not only about how children understand the task at each point, but also about how they progress from one point to the next. This article examines a routine behavior that Piaget overlooked-the spontaneous gestures speakers produce as the...

The future in our hands

You might think that good salaries and generous funding would be enough to ensure the future of a research system. Yet, in Germany many young scientists may be forced to take jobs abroad rather than make a career here, and few non-Germans consider jobs here. So what’s the problem? Young German scientists progress through their undergraduate, PhD and postdoctoral years in much the same way as th...