‘Conducting his own Campaigns’: Evelyn Waugh and Propaganda

Did Menzel Paint His Own Babinski Sign?

Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), one of the greatest German realistic painters of the nineteenth Century (1), painted his right foot from normal perspective with the great toe extended (Figure 1B). The other toes seem to be relaxed. There are no suggestions of foot deformity like pes cavus. Menzel finished that painting, oil on wood panel, in 1876 (1). He gave no official explanation, why he had ...

Carmine Melino: a Universe by his own.

Carl Djerassi: in his own words.

In honor of the 90th birthday of Professor Carl Djerassi, J. I. Seeman has assembled a collection of poignant quotes and excerpts from Djerassi's writings which embody his remarkable life experiences, his philosophies of life, and his unique personality.

Ewald Weibel: An organelle of his very own, and more

W eibel-Palade bodies are membrane bound , rod-shaped or-ganelles found exclusively in endothelial cells. These structures were utterly mysterious when Ewald Weibel, working in George Palade's laboratory, first described them in a seminal 1964 JCB paper (1). But it's now known that their distinctive shape is imbued by tightly wound strands of a protein called von Willebrand Factor, which is rel...

Each under his own vine and fig tree.

at a time when most of medieval Eu rope was burning witches at the stake, one country stood out as a ha ven for free thought and religious toleration. in 1492, as the mass ex pulsion of the Jews from Spain began, the ottoman Sultan Bayazid ii opened the gates of turkey to the refugees fleeing the inquisition. the same tradition moved the secular rulers of postimperial turkey to welcome those es...