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In 1936, whilst studying for his Ph.D. at Princeton University, the English mathematician Alan Turing published a paper, “ On Computable Numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem,” which became the foundation of computer science...
In February 1964, the British and Americans made a secret pact in London. For a discount of $ 11 million on American-made Polaris submarines, the British agreed to expel the 2,000 native inhabitants of Diego Gargia, the largest island of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and hand over the island for use as an American military base...
Seeing a reminder that International Clinical Trials Day will soon occur, I wanted to recognize and thank the clinical research teams and volunteers that make this possible.
When cosmetic gynecologist Adam Ostrzenski, MD set out to discover the elusive G-spot, the part of a woman’s anatomy supposedly responsible for orgasm, he followed a flawed premise – but his finding announced today will undoubtedly generate frantic media coverage.The discovery of the G-spot in a lone elderly corpse and the lack of information on just what Dr...
A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. “If all the people for whom nothing ever worked dropped out of science, there'd be nobody left.” These were the words that convinced Dr...
It is rather odd how often I hear the expression paradigm shift during contemporary scientific presentations and seminars. The expression was popularized by Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ...
A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. As a woman scientist in the beginning of my career I’m always interested in the journey of more established female scientists: how their interest in science developed, how they’ve overcome challenges to be successful, and how they’ve balanced their goals of establishing a successful career with the desire to have a family...
Ted Williams entered the final two games of the 1941 season batting .39955. If he’d sat them out, the average would’ve been rounded up to .400, making him the only MLB player in the modern era to bat the milestone...
A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. Dr. Pamela Ronald Prof.
The morning of my Board exams, my mother packed me a lunch comprising of seedless grapes, two Greek yogurts, a cheese sandwich, a bag of pistachio nuts, two cappuccinos, a diet coke, chocolate-covered coffee beans and a pouch of pretzels.“Mum, this isn’t the Hunger Games,” I joked.“Well no duh...
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