Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions

The alleged miscarriages of Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.

THE birth to a queen of England of a surviving child has, for the most part, been an event accurately recorded by contemporary chroniclers for the last 500 years. But if the child did not survive, detailed information was often lacking; the sex was generally stated, but whether the infant was stillborn or died soon after birth, whether "soon after birth" meant hours or days, and whether the bir...

The Anne Boleyn Illusion is a Six-Fingered Salute to Sensory Remapping

The Anne Boleyn Illusion exploits the somatotopic representation of touch to create the illusion of an extra digit and demonstrates the instantaneous remapping of relative touch location into body-based coordinates through visuo-tactile integration. Performed successfully on thousands, it is also a simple demonstration of the flexibility of body representations for use at public events, in scho...

Notes on the Obstetric Histories of Catharine of Arragon and Anne Boleyn

Forthcoming attractions

Sequence analysis The hot topic in sequence analysis is hidden Markov models (HMMs). Rather than looking at related protein sequences as clusters of pairwise alignments, HMMs abstract from a family of related sequences a probability model that can be used to predict whether a novel sequence is a member of the family. Some nifty mathematics are needed for accurate HMMs, but once created they can...

Brain degeneration linked to "fatal attractions" of proteins in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

A common mechanistic theme shared by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and many other seemingly unrelated neurodegenerative disorders is emerging from accelerating research progress in the last few years which is beginning to dispel the pessimistic assumption that each phenotypically and genotypically distinct sporadic as well as hereditary degenerative disorder of the aging central nervous system (CNS)...