And Yet It Stands

"Eppur si muove" ("and yet it moves").

Eppur si vola (and yet it flies).

In his book ‘LeVol des Insectes’, whichwas published in 1934, the French entomologist Antoine Magnan mentioned in passing that when he and his assistant, the mathematician André Sainte-Laguë, applied the conventional laws of fixed-wing aerodynamics to flapping wings, they were unable to explain how insects could fly (Magnan, 1934). Thus was born the infamous ‘bumblebeeparadox’,much to the annoy...

Prostate cancer screening: and yet it moves!

The debate of prostate cancer (PCa) screening has been shaped over decades. There is a plethora of articles in the literature supporting as well as declining prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Does screening decrease PCa mortality? With the long-term results of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate (ERSPC) the answer is clearly YES. It moves! However, in medicine there...

"Eppur si muove" (Yet it moves).

I n the 17th century, the problem of the relative movement of the Earth with respect to the sun was an issue of central importance, and in fact, the man who has been considered responsible for the birth of modern science was committed to house arrest for defending the heliocentric hypothesis. Four centuries after the (never-confirmed) legend of Galileo Galilei’s rebellious phrase, a problem of ...

Can you tell what it is yet?

Spend your time even for only few minutes to read a book. Reading a book will never reduce and waste your time to be useless. Reading, for some people become a need that is to do every day such as spending time for eating. Now, what about you? Do you like to read a book? Now, we will show you a new book enPDFd can you tell what it is yet that can be a new way to explore the knowledge. When read...