“What's Past Is Prologue”: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 1

Is Education’s Past Its 2050 Prologue?1

I ask you to consider the future of education, especially of postsecondary education. If you choose to extrapolate from familiar paragons of academic excellence, you may gloss over a challenging policy conundrum. Progressive leaders around the world are asking for help from education leaders. Their policy goal is to scale up, often to unprecedented levels, the intellectual-capital pool of posts...

What is past is prologue.

Alfred Blalock had a remarkable career as a clinical surgeon, laboratory investigator, and a teacher of medical students and residents. This article examines certain potential critical influences on his career, including Drs William Halsted and Barney Brooks, and Dr Blalock's early years as a resident and subsequently a faculty member at Vanderbilt. It is intended as a focused review, utilizing...

What's Past is Prologue: Celebrating 40 Seasons of Idaho Shakespeare Festival

Mitosis futures: the past is prologue

The mechanisms by which cells organize and segregate their chromosomes have been under close scrutiny for years, and significant progress has been made in understanding how mitosis works. Modern cell biology has identified most of the molecules that underlie mitotic spindle function, but the ways in which they are organized and controlled to make an effective and accurate cellular machine are e...

Double, Double Toil and Trouble —shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1

decades and can be difficult to undo. For example, consider the overly long, often awkward, and sometimes contentious process by which 32-bit microprocessor systems evolved into 64/32-bitters needed to address larger storage and run mixtures of 32and 64bit user programs. Most major generalpurpose CPUs now have such versions, so bits have “doubled,” but “toil and trouble” are not over, especiall...