Remembrance of things past and concerns for the future.

Remembrance of Things Past

The remembrance of things past: on the collection and recollection of ingredients useful in the treatment of disorders resulting from unhappiness, rootlessness, and the fear of things to come.

Lack of hope for future change is hypothesized as a distinguishing factor between suicidally depressed young adolescents and other young people who are also objectless, the developmentally dispossessed. Methods by which the affective reserve of hope and self-love can be therapeutically augmented are suggested, and speculations are offered on the role of the personal past and group past in gener...

Remembrance of Things Past

an unassuming entrance where once passed Alan Turing, Tommy Flowers, and the thousands of men and women who labored in secrecy. Collectively, they changed the outcome of World War II; individually, the contributions of a few laid the foundations of computing. Until recently, a strong possibility existed that Bletchley Park would be lost to modern development. Thanks to the efforts started by To...

Role and Application of RFID Technology in Internet of Things: Communication, Authentication, Risk, and Security Concerns

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a very encouraging and fast-growing area that brings together the benefits of wireless systems, sensor networks, actuators, etc.A wide range of IoT applications have been targeted and several aspects of this field have been identified to address specific issues, as well as technologies and standards developed in various domains such as in radio frequency id...

Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lessons from the Geologic Record

Global climate--like local weather--is ever changing, on all time scales, in response to natural variations. For this reason, projections of global warming, resulting from increasing levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases, need to be set in the context of what has happened in the past. A knowledge of what has changed, and when and where, provides insights into why past changes have occurred. Su...