After some 350 years – zero declination again in Paris

Smiling again after fifteen years of torture.

I am Charline Musaniwabo. I was born in 1976. My parents were farmers. I lived with them up to April 1994. My life completely changed during the genocide, having been married forcibly and losing many of my family members. I was born into a family of nine children, four boys and five girls. Five siblings and both my parents died during the genocide. Four of us escaped. I did not get a chance to ...

350 Years of Scientific Periodicals.

Zero-Knowledge twenty years after its invention

Zero-knowledge proofs are proofs that are both convincing and yet yield nothing beyond the validity of the assertion being proven. Since their introduction about twenty years ago, zero-knowledge proofs have attracted a lot of attention and have, in turn, contributed to the development of other areas of cryptography and complexity theory. We survey the main deenitions and results regarding zero-...

1656-2006: 350 years of intravenous injection.

In the article “The history of peripheral intravenous catheters” in ACTA ANAESTHESIOL. BELG. 56, 271-82, 2005 (1), it is stated that the first serious attempts of intravenous administration of drugs were made in 1658 by Sir Christopher Wren (16321723). This date is contradictory to common historical knowledge which dates Wrens experiments back to the year 1656 and give reason to celebrate the 3...

Celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society

Back in the 1660s, the Royal Society’s founders met regularly to discuss scientific ideas and perform experiments; the outcomes of their experiments and discussions were recorded in the Society’s Transactions. The world of science has been utterly transformed since that era. Nonetheless, these activities, pioneered by the Society, remain the accepted procedures whereby scientific ideas are crit...