Canvas-Destroying Fungi

Toxicity of dyes and related compounds to wood-destroying fungi.

In 1891 Ehrlich demonstrated the antimalarial activity of methylene blue and a few years later discovered that trypan red would kill trypanosomes. These disclosures helped lay the foundations of chemotherapy. Since that time many workers have studied the effects of dyes on microorganisms, among them Stearn and Stearn (1924). Dion and Lord (1944) and Aiquel and Herraro (1948) have shown that bas...

Destroying Civilization, Destroying Nature

Wood-destroying soft rot fungi in the historic expedition huts of Antarctica.

Three expedition huts in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, built between 1901 and 1911 by Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton, sheltered and stored the supplies for up to 48 men for 3 years during their explorations and scientific investigation in the South Pole region. The huts, built with wood taken to Antarctica by the early explorers, have deteriorated over the past decades. Although Ant...

Permutations Destroying Arithmetic Structure

Given a linear form C1X1 + · · · + CnXn, with coefficients in the integers, we characterize exactly the countably infinite abelian groups G for which there exists a permutation f that maps all solutions (α1, . . . , αn) ∈ Gn (with the αi not all equal) to the equation C1X1+ · · ·+CnXn = 0 to non-solutions. This generalises a result of Hegarty about permutations of an abelian group avoiding arit...

Folder Window as Canvas

In this paper we argue that already minimal additions to the operating system’s folder window, are able to significantly enhance the quality of the users’ Personal Knowledge Management, if they are leaning towards a certain style of cognitive and working preferences that embraces associations or connections among the concepts, documents, or “topics”. Drawing upon empirical experiences with a pr...