Will Accountants Become Purveyors Of All Information?

Will hypolimnetic waters become anoxic in all deep tropical lakes?

To elucidate trends of hypolimnetic oxygen concentrations, vertical distributions of dissolved oxygen were measured in eight deep tropical bodies of water (one natural lake with two basins, five natural lakes, and one reservoir) in Indonesia. A comparison of those concentrations with previously reported data revealed that shoaling of hypolimnetic oxygen-deficient (around a few decimeters to a f...

Letter to the editor: will we all become electrosensitive?

Dear Editor, Each year an increasing number of people claim to suffer from electrosensitivity (see, e.g., compilation of references given in Table 1), also known as being electrically hypersensitive (EHS). There are also other diseases, such as fibromyalgia and burn-out syndrome, that have symptoms similar to those exhibited by people suffering from electrosensitivity. In Sweden, electrosensiti...

How Books Will Become Machines

We shape our tools and they shape us in return. Trapped in an invisible technological loop, we underestimate the pervasive impact of the tools we use, ignorant of the fact that each technological transition can change the way we act, feel or think. Worse, our understanding of technological evolutionary dynamics is still in its infancy. We are missing the equivalent of a Darwinian Theory of Evol...

What will become of Homo sapiens?

What will become of the polio network?

News What will become of the polio network? Polio could be history within a few years, but what will become of the vast network set up to fight the disease is unclear. Health experts fear that once polio is eradicated, donors will stop funding the diversified network, which now helps immunize children against many other diseases, fight outbreaks and respond to natural disasters. When a massive ...