“Scientific truth”, Marx wrote in a famous statement, “is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things” (Marx, 1899, 54). The idea of the production of nature is indeed paradoxical, to the point of sounding absurd, if judged by the superficial appearance of nature even in capitalist society. Nature is generally seen as precisely that whi...

From the rust-brown sediments of long-dried streams that once rumbled through the rugged terrain of Canada’s Ellesmere Island, a team of paleontologists unearthed in 2004 fossils of a 375 million-year-old species of fish that may have nearly crossed an evolutionary Rubicon. Named Tiktaalik roseae, the nowextinct animal has come to represent an intermediate link between fish and amphibians, its ...

p0330 The constantly irritable infant is often referred to by primary health care providers in a somewhat offhanded way as being colicky, as if that somehow represents the final word on the subject. ‘Infantile colic’ is a term which is used by various health care professions to describe the persistent, often violent crying which sometimes characterizes an otherwise healthy and thriving baby. As...

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We propose a simple model in which an agent observes not only the choices made by others, but also some information about the process that led them to those choices. We consider two cases: In the first, an agent observes whether another agent has compared the alternatives before making his choice. In the second, an agent observes the time invested in deliberation before the other agent makes hi...

In his article on poetry in health care education, Neil Pickering puts forward an argument of radical unpredictability: as we can never know in advance how a poem will be interpreted, it can be of no external use.(1) It is, however, exactly this potential to give rise to multiple interpretations that makes the poem valuable. We hold that the poem should be read and discussed with no other inten...

Absence of Asymptomatic Mumps Virus Shedding Among Vaccinated College Students During a Mumps Outbreak — Washington, February–June 2017 Jesse Bonwitt, BVSc1,2; Vance Kawakami, DVM,3; Adam Wharton, MS4; Rachel M. Burke, PhD1,4; Neil Murthy, MD1,4; Adria Lee, MSPH4; BreeAnna Dell, DVM5; Meagan Kay, DVM3; Jeff Duchin, MD3,6; Carole Hickman, PhD4; Rebecca J. McNall, PhD4; Paul A. Rota, PhD4; Manish...

Read and Neil Tennant for helpful comments and discussions on topics related to this work. Drafts of Chapters 5 and 6 were written during a research stay at the Department of Logic and Metaphysics of the University of St. Andrews in Spring 1985. I am grateful to the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for supporting this stay with a travel grant. I should like to thank my colleagues, especially Gereon Wolte...

String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we see as the result of a Big Bang was actually created by the cyclical trillion-year collision of two universes (which they define as three-dimensional branes plus time) that were attracted toward e...