I find introspection to be painful. Looking back, I recall doing little of it before age sixteen. Instead, I mainly did the things that I was instructed to do. I studied hard and performed well in courses and examinations, for no deeper reason than that this was what one was supposed to do. As an adult I have introspected when it has seemed constructive to do so, but I still try not to overdo i...

P. 3 Is there a zombie nation in our future? A continual humans vs. zombies battle would make for an entertaining school day, don't you think? AftE '*WI$r' p. 10 It might put you in a Wyrd funk Rice Players' Wyrd Sisters misfires on a number of dramatic levels. But that Hwel guy sure is good. SPORTS P. 14 Jazzing it up Go behind the scenes with former Rice basketballer Morris Almond, as he talk...

On page 1077, Machado et al. reveal a new way in which aspirin reins in inflammation— it triggers the destruction of proinflammatory signaling proteins. Aspirin's power was initially attributed to its inhibition of proinflammatory lipids called prostaglandins— a discovery that won the Nobel Prize in 1982. Later, aspirin was also shown to beef up levels of lipids called lipoxins, which help reso...

Based on the HVZ theorem and dilation analyticity of the pseudorelativistic no-pair Jansen-Hess operator, it is shown that for subcritical potential strength (Z ≤ 90) the singular continuous spectrum is absent. The bound is slightly higher (Z ≤ 102) for the Brown-Ravenhall operator whose eigenvalues λ are, by the virial theorem, confined to λ < 2m if Z ≤ 50.