Whatever happened to the Golden Age of natural gas?

Whatever Happened to Healers?

When I began to explore the world of alternative medicine nearly three decades ago, I discovered that I would have to expand my vocabulary considerably if I wanted to communicate with therapists. For example, they often used the word “healer,” which was not part of the lexicon of medical school. In fact, I do not recall the term ever being used in my medical training. I had no feel for this exp...

Whatever happened to apprenticeship learning?

BACKGROUND I have been a clinical tutor for 10 years in Worthing Hospital, UK. During this time I have seen an increased emphasis on classroom teaching, assessments in controlled situations and simulation, rather than on apprenticeship learning during well-supervised clinical working. CONTEXT At the educational conference on 'Learning without Leaving the Workplace' hosted by my hospital, I ha...

Whatever happened to qualitative description?

The general view of descriptive research as a lower level form of inquiry has influenced some researchers conducting qualitative research to claim methods they are really not using and not to claim the method they are using: namely, qualitative description. Qualitative descriptive studies have as their goal a comprehensive summary of events in the everyday terms of those events. Researchers con...

Whatever happened to the class of '83?

Whatever Happened to Cold Fusion

The article that follows was written in 1994, and first appeared in The American Scholar (vol. 63 p. 527). In the three years since then much has happened, but little has changed. There have been reports of increasingly reliable production of excess heat, and of the detection of 4He residue, and much more. Nevertheless, the most remarkable fact remains that cold fusion has neither been accepted...