What would one do if they were the black sheep?

What would you do if it were your kid?

What would be conserved if "the tape were played twice"?

We develop an abstract chemistry, implemented in a lambda-calculus-based modeling platform, and argue that the following features are generic to this particular abstraction of chemistry; hence, they would be expected to reappear if "the tape were run twice": (i) hypercycles of self-reproducing objects arise; (ii) if self-replication is inhibited, self-maintaining organizations arise; and (iii) ...

"What would you do if this were your child?": practitioners' responses during enacted conversations in the United States.

OBJECTIVE To explore how practitioners in the United States respond to the question "What would you do if this were your child?" during realistic enactments with professional actors. DESIGN Descriptive study of realistic pediatric critical care enactments. SETTING Pediatric critical care. SUBJECTS Interprofessional practitioners who enrolled in the Program to Enhance Relational and Commun...

What if Chomsky were right?

The outcome of scientific research depends on how a phenomenon is viewed and how the questions are phrased. This applies also to the nativist view of language acquisition. As a complement to MacWhinney’s discussion of nativism from the viewpoint of cognitive psychology, I would like to devote this commentary to the question of the title from the viewpoint of computational linguistics. Formally,...

What if entropy were dimensionless?

One of entropy’s puzzling aspects is its dimensions of energy/temperature. A review of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics leads to six conclusions: ~1! Entropy’s dimensions are linked to the definition of the Kelvin temperature scale. ~2! Entropy can be defined to be dimensionless when temperature T is defined as an energy ~dubbed tempergy!. ~3! Dimensionless entropy per particle typicall...