The path of medical research progress is not leading to one solution for everything. But as science moves forward with increasing sophistication and depth, there are going to be more and more patients fortunate enough to obtain a specific …

It is often possible to make known what one wants and what he is thinking about by means of gestures, without the use of words, and it may be that men talked by signs before they used spoken language.There are many gestures which are still…

On July 8, Tetsuya Yamagami allegedly approached Abe from behind during a stump speech in the city of Nara and shot him with a handmade gun. Yamagami, who was arrested on the spot, has reportedly admitted to the shooting, telling investiga…

Step two involved addressing the volumes of eyewitness claims, and explaining why such testimony can be unreliable. If you’re skeptical, check out the decades of research that have been done on the reliability of witnesses testifying in co…

One consequence of the abandonment of this concept was the fragmentation of graduate-level education. American universities no longer have "a" graduate school; they have many. There are graduate schools of medicine, of law, of journalism, …

Then, somewhere along the way, we lost the consensus of what constitutes an educated person. One reason for this has been the rapid increase of knowledge. It is almost impossible now to encompass all the knowledge in one field or to have m…

What range of knowledge does it take to make an "educated person"? There was a time, once, when that question would have been unnecessary. There was a common consensus that an educated person should feel at home with language, especially o…

Many thinkers dating back to Buddha and Pythagoras have advocated the simple, almost fasting diet for the contemplative existence; meat is to be avoided. But the English philosopher, Herbert Spencer, was a believer in the meat diet. Somebo…

One new approach to recycling Enck wants to see more are programs that allow for bottles and other packages to be washed and refilled. She cites Coca-Cola’s recent announcement that it will try to refill or reuse a quarter of its glass and…