It has been argued that Franz Boas contributed little to the emergence of the culture concept in anthropology and in fact hindered its growth. In the context of an earlier re-evaluation of the role of E. B. Tylor, it is argued here that in the work of Boas the concept was in fact provided with much of the basis of its modern anthropological meaning. In developing his argument against racial men...

Information Visualization (InfoVis) focuses on the use of visualization techniques to help people understand and analyze data. While related elds such as Scienti c Visualization involve the presentation of data that has some physical or geometric correspondence, Information Visualization centers on abstract information without such correspondences. The aim of this seminar was to bring together ...

Today, evidence-based medicine (EBM) is proposed as the “natural” way of thinking and practicing medicine. Although it has been questioned with several arguments (little humanist, elitist, disdainful of experience, functional to the health commerce, etc.), criticism has not moved its structure. EBM was born at the beginning of the nineties; it is undoubtedly the dominant thought in today’s medi...

This article was presented by the author at the National University Medical School Vaccination Seminar.

[1] Learning, words and actions: experimental evidence on coordination-improving information JOB MARKET PAPER (with Nicolas Jacquemet), CES Working Paper 2010.64, conditionally accepted at The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics; Presentations: SIMA seminar at Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2010; 6th Economic Behavior and Interaction Models Joint Workshop, Paris, 2010; 6th Internati...