Craig Heron — Booze: A Distilled History

A Heron Diierence

Is it possible that the lengths of two sides of a primitive Heron triangle have a c ommon factor? The triangle with sides 9, 65, 70 and area 252 shows that this is possible. But notice that the common factor 5 is a prime of the form 4+1. Surprisingly, however, such a common factor cannot be a prime of the form 4 ; 1. Heron's name is familiar to anyone who has used the formula = p s(s ; a)(s ; b...

A conversation with Craig Thompson.

Craig Thompson, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is a medical oncologist and immunologist who has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of how cells — from B and T cells to stem cells and cancer cells — survive and replicate. See the full interview at https://www.jci. org/videos/cgms to hear Thompson’s (Figure 1) stories about being a remedial reader, t...

Booze barns: fuelling hazardous drinking in Australia?

Latest data confirm that drinking by Australians persists as a public health problem, despite a plateauing of consumption levels in recent years. In 2011–12, 19.5% of adults exceeded the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) guidelines (http:// www.nhmrc.gov.au/your-health/alcohol-guidelines, verified 5 August 2013) considered to be risky to their lifetime health by consuming mor...

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A Reply to Craig Swan