CBS President's Report for Volume 61

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

Underwriting the presidents.

The United States has had 43 presidents. We examined whether they survive significantly longer or shorter than their contemporaries. We found that survival was better for presidents elected in the 1789-1841 and 1933-2001 periods (SMRs of 0.7 and 0.6, respectively), but worse for those elected in 1845-1929 (SMR = 2.9). We also found increased mortality during the years lived in office (SMR = 1.4...

Presidents who value science.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 323 13 FEBRUARY 2009 843 COVER An image of Mare Moscoviense on the lunar farside, taken by the Terrain Camera aboard the SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft on 17 January 2008. Crater frequency distributions derived from such images yield ages of about 2.5 billion years for several volcanic deposits in this mare, indicating that volcanism on the lunar farside lasted about ...

MDH volume 61 Issue 4 Cover and Front matter

MDH volume 61 Issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Psychicones: Visual Traces of the Soul in Late Nineteenth-Century Fluidic Photography Nicolas Pethes 325 ‘It’s All Done With Mirrors’: V.S. Ramachandran and the Material Culture of Phantom Limb Research Katja Guenther 342 Drawing as Instrument, Drawings as Evidence: Capturing Mental Processes with Pencil and Paper Alicia Puglionesi 359 Brain Ways: Meynert, Bachelard and the Material Imagination...