Who is afraid of scientific imperialism?

Who Is Afraid of Randomness?

We finally understand. Things are the way they are because they can't be otherwise. Ivar Ekeland

Who is afraid of Staphylococcus?

The continent of Africa has an extraordinary richness of flora, and a tradition of herbal or traditional medicines 1 . The low cost and high acceptance 2 of, and ease of access 3 to such ‘therapies’ make them the most common form of African alternative medicine. However, only a relatively small number of plant species and their extracts have been studied 4 , with minimal information available r...

Who is Afraid of Political Instability?

An unstable macroeconomic environment is often regarded as detrimental to economic growth. Among the sources contributing to such instability, the literature has assigned most of the blame to political issues. This paper empirically tests for a causal and negative long-term relation between political instability and economic growth, but finds no evidence of such a relationship. Sensitivity anal...

Who is Afraid of the “Precautionary Principle”?

Who is afraid of Model Checking Distributed Algorithms?

While distributed algorithms is a highly active area, and the correctness of distributed algorithms is usually based on very subtle mathematical arguments, there have been very limited efforts to achieve automated verification of distributed algorithms. In this note we discuss the major technical obstacles and methodological challenges. Our hope is that the collection of issues collected in thi...