Devil’s lenses

Nao Devils Dortmund Team

The Nao Devils Dortmund have their roots in the teams Microsoft Hellhounds (and therefore part of the German Team), DoH!Bots and BreDoBrothers. The team had a number of successes, such as winning the RoboCup World Championship twice with the GermanTeam (2004 and 2005), winning the RoboCup German Open 2005, the Dutch Open and US Open 2006 with the Microsoft Hellhounds, and winning the Four-Legge...

Dembski, Darwin and Devils

A second transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils.

Clonally transmissible cancers are somatic cell lineages that are spread between individuals via the transfer of living cancer cells. There are only three known naturally occurring transmissible cancers, and these affect dogs, soft-shell clams, and Tasmanian devils, respectively. The Tasmanian devil transmissible facial cancer was first observed in 1996, and is threatening its host species with...

Jan Wier, devils, witches and magic

of the original works cited are made in each case. The selected pieces are connected by Professor Altschule's useful commentaries. Unfortunately his general knowledge of the earlier historical periods is defective, and, throughout, the background to medical events is mostly lacking. No attempt is made to identify or comment on the authors selected, and citation of secondary sources is virtually...

Dust devils as observed by Mars Pathfinder

[1] Dust devils are localized meteorological phenomena frequently observed in terrestrial dry lands and desert landscapes as well as on Mars. They are low-pressure, warm core vortices that form at the bottom of convective plumes and loft dust from the surface. They move with the speed of the ambient wind and are tilted by wind shears. The Mars Pathfinder detected dust devils as dust plumes in t...