As most of you know, I am a sports fan and an admirer of gifted athletes. It was fun being a Lumberjack fan this past fall and watching them in person playing and winning the state title. It was also a wonderful experience to watch how they did it, playing almost a perfect game. Yet the crowning joy was how the Lumberjacks handled their victory following the game. I would not have blamed them a...

EMPLOYERS ACROSS the UK are expected to review the demands they place on staff following a landmark employment tribunal victory last week by nurses Christine Clunie and Alison Hale.

Two dolphins carrying cameras swam in the ocean as they searched for and marked mine simulators - buried, proud or moored. As the animals swam ahead of a boat they searched the ocean. Cameras on their harness recorded continuous sound and video. Once a target was detected, the dolphins received a marker to take to the simulator's location. During search and detection, dolphins made almost conti...

Humans have used cryptography for more than two centuries. While the first cyphers were fairly-easy-tocrack letter swapping codes, cryptographic protocols have improved over the years, and today their use for securing bank transactions and other sensitive data is widespread. However, the schemes being used today are, in principle, breakable and the privacy of our data relies on the presumed dif...

A victory for physicians and patients If you are like me, the recent Minnesota Supreme Court ruling on the Avera Marshall case made you smile. You felt a small thrill of victory upon hearing that the high court sided with physicians by holding that medical staffs are legal entities and that medical staff bylaws constitute a contract between physicians and hospitals. I hope you celebrated this v...

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EDITOR’S NOTE: On April 11, 1991, at the Kent State University conference celebrating the Polanyi centennial, there was a panel discussion which bore the title listed above. The panel included nine persons whose interest in Polanyi’s thought is long-standing; panelists were asked to comment on the relevance of Polanyi’s thought to issues and discussions current in their areas of interest. Five ...