Would Brazil be "less urban that it is being computed?

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The buffalo that would be a tiger

What is it like doing science in India? Let me make the operating rules clear before I answer. Every question about India has two ‘correct’ answers which say exactly opposite things. Furthermore, each of the one billion Indians will disagree with one another and with what any outsider has to say about India. Being a scientist in India is wonderful. Really. Every good grant proposal gets funded....

Whose Cortical Column Would that Be?

The cortical column has been an invaluable concept to explain the functional organization of the neocortex. While this idea was born out of experiments that cleverly combined electrophysiological recordings with anatomy, no one has 'seen' the anatomy of a column. All we know is that when we record through the cortex of primates, ungulates, and carnivores in a trajectory perpendicular to its sur...

Would It Be Possible to Have Two Corresponding Authors for One Article?

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هجدهم، دی 1398،       آیا می‌توان دو نویسنده مسئول برای یک مقاله داشت؟   Would It Be Possible to Have Two Corresponding Authors for One Article?     محسن رضائیان[1]   M. Rezaeian   اخیراً در کارگاه مقاله نویسی که برای اعضاء هیئت علمی یکی از دانشگاه‌های علوم پزشکی کشور برگزار کردم، سؤال یکی از شرکت کنندگان این بود که " آیا...

IJEE Soapbox: A World free of pArAsites And vectors: Would it be heAven, or Would it be hell?

This is of course impossible, but Gould’s thought experiment is a useful conceptual exercise which brings out key issues of determinism versus randomness in history. More broadly, it can be illuminating to ponder all kinds of implausible and radical scenarios, in effect bracketing the real world with visions of possible worlds. What would our world now be like if, at some time in the past, a ma...