Book: Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries

The greatest book you never read.

There are books that everybody has heard of but few have actually read. Some are out of date, others are timeless; some are utter nonsense, others are profound. Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1899); Adam Smith’s An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776); Marx’s The Communist Manifesto (1848); Dante’s Divine Comedy (circa 1321); Cervantes’ Don Quixote (1605); D...

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within the genome and lacks the antibody production that characterizes the adaptive immune response of higher vertebrates. The insect innate immune system is capable of recognition and subsequent eradication of microbes and multicellular parasites through humoral and cellular defence mechanisms (reviewed in Lemaitre and Hoffmann, 2007). Humoral immunity is mediated by production of microbicidal...

Book Review: The Essential Turing, Volume 53, Number 10

The Essential Turing is a selection of writings of the British mathematician Alan M. Turing (1912–1954). Extended introductions and annotations are added by the editor, the New Zealand philosopher B. Jack Copeland, and there are some supplementary papers and commentaries by other authors. Alan Tur-ing was the founder of the theory of computabil-ity, with his paper " On Computable numbers, with ...

Utilitarianism: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number

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