In 1846, a Scottish surgeon named James Esdaile reported 80% surgical anesthesia using hypnosis as the sole anesthetic for amputations in India. His work caused sufficient stir that when ether anesthesia was demonstrated in what is now called the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16 of that same year, a surgeon strode to the front of the amphitheater and said, "Gentlem...

The HumBug project is targeted at eliminating mosquito-borne diseases that have a major impact on human health, income and mortality [1]. The ultimate aim is to deploy a sensor network consisting of portable devices, such as mobile phones, wristbands or other monitoring devices. The devices may communicate in either a centralised or decentralised fashion to help target areas in need of aid opti...

Animals make use a range of social information to inform their movement decisions. One common movement rule, found across many different species, is that the probability that an individual moves to an area increases with the number of conspecifics there. However, in many cases, it remains unclear what social cues produce this and other similar movement rules. Here, we investigate what cues are ...

Bleaching patterns along a faulted succession provides new insight into fluid migration pathways controlled by the fault zone and mechanical stratigraphy. In order to investigate this effect, we logged stratigraphic layers in Humbug Flats, Utah, USA both host rocks rocks, where 40 m offset normal cuts through Entrada Sandstone. We measured petrophysical properties using TinyPerm II, Schmidt Ham...

This paper examines the relationship between Dascyllus aruanus and Pomacentrus moluccensis, two species of damselfish which commonly form mixed colonies on the reef flat of Heron Island, in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. D. aruanus, commonly known as the Humbug Damselfish, has been extensively studied. They defend their territory (consisting of branched coral) and form both conspecific and bis...

The author of this article claims it is a fair description of her recent experience as an inpatient in an unidentified major public teaching hospital. The name of the hospital has been withheld at our request. The Australian Health Review has no reason to believe her account is inaccurate but readers will draw their own conclusions. The comments of the Chief Executive of a similar hospital are ...

This 'Christmas Issue'-type paper uses the framework of 'A Christmas Carol' to tell about the evolution of decision-making in evidence-based medicine (EBM). The Ghost of the Past represents paternalistic medicine, the Ghost of the Present symbolises EBM, while the Ghost of the Future serves as a patient-centred system where research data and tools of decision science are jointly used to make op...