What is capital? Economists and sociologists have changed its meaning: should it be changed back?

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

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Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, and What It Should Be

What Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the current time is not what it should be. The mainstream works in the field are on domain-specific problems and solutions. Instead, AI should focus on general-purpose systems that are adaptive to its environment, and can work with insufficient knowledge and resources. AI in this sense is unified with Cognitive Science at a general level, with the latter ...

Ductal carcinoma in situ: should the name be changed?

S peakers at the National Institutes of Health state-of-the-science conference on ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in September set out to assess critical areas in the field and ended up with a range of research recommendations: Improve risk stratification of patients, look closer at biomarkers, and compare the effectiveness of treatment methods. Surprisingly, though, after an unexpected fl urry...

Should the law on assisted dying be changed? Yes.

The case for legalising assisted dying for people with terminal illness is easily stated. Unbearable suffering, prolonged by medical care, and inflicted on a dying patient who wishes to die, is unequivocally a bad thing. It is one of the fundamental principles of medicine that you should be allowed to determine what is in your own best interest when you are of sound mind. Nobody else’s views sh...