When people learn that I study lethal injection, they are usually curious to know more (or at least they are polite enough to ask questions). Interestingly, the question that arises most often— from lawyers, law students, and laypeople—is why states behave as they do. In the wake of botched executions and ample evidence of lethal injection‘s dangers, why do states fail to address their executio...

A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

concepts. . . Inattention is a most efficacious logical faculty; presumably this accounts for the absentmindedness of professors. [5, pp. 84–85] The extent to which Husserl’s early philosophical work is susceptible to Frege’s criticisms, as well as the extent to which these criticisms has substantial influence on Husserl’s later work, is still subject to debate (see, for example, [18]). But Hus...

This paper is an attempt to present a formal coherent framework for creative visual thinking. First, fundamentals of creativity and creative thought are discussed. Then designer’s dialogue with graphical outputs based on the constructive perception is analyzed. Constructive perception is defined as a composition of design actions combining normal seeing with visual imagination. The proposed fra...

Current graphical user interfaces (GUI) are too cumbersome to use in the early stage of creative activities. Nested menus, arrays of buttons, and dialog boxes interfere with the flexible exploration. As a result, especially in visual task domain, most people rely on traditional pen and paper for the initial exploration, and move to the computers later. Our goal is to provide fluent user interfa...

This single subject study concerned how a 13 year-old student with specific learning disabilities used metacognition as he composed discourse in response to a writing prompt. Ethnographic procedures were used to collect and analyze data. The participant engaged in a think aloud procedure as he composed a paper about a famous historical figure. His transcribed verbalizations were analyzed by use...

Recently I chaired a conference hosted by the National Council for Palliative Care focusing on the issues of comorbidity and dying with dignity. Being a conference chair is one sure way of concentrating your mind and thoughts on speaker presentations because you have to pick up the threads, link speakers together and summarise the conference.

Primary Argument Critical thinking is an essential element for nurses who function in today’s complex healthcare domain. Nursing organisations worldwide have recognised the need to develop and stimulate higher‐order critical thinking by using innovative strategies to stimulate critical thinking abilities. This Middle‐Eastern hospital sought to promote critical thinking skills in Middle‐Eastern ...