Katherine brown of the ias wants the minimum price to be 50p per unit : " alcohol is not an ordinary commodity , it is a drug and should be treated as such . "
Recent research shows that these drugs can also stop the spread of the virus from person to person , and a big topic of discussion at the ias meeting will be how best to deploy them to do just that .
Von neumann and the band of engineers he assembled to build his computer were looked down upon by other members of the ias faculty , who preferred to grapple with esoteric theories rather than cathode-ray tubes , thermionic valves and soldering irons-let alone thermonuclear weapons .