Francophone Cameroon literature: A conversation with Ambroise Kom

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590).

study medicine in 1536 and supported himself by lecturing on mathematics, geography and astronomy. In Paris, his teachers included Sylvius and Andermach, who hailed him with Andrea Vesalius as his most able assistant in dissections There he stepped over the line that Christian doctrine had drown between acceptable areas of astrology, and forbidden zone of judicial astrology (left for God-essent...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

Ambroise Pare and His Times, 1510—1590

A Conversation with Graham Hutchings

G raham Hutchings of Cardiff University made a discovery in 1982 that came to define his career. He predicted that golddespite its reputation for being inertshould be an excellent catalyst for an industrial reaction that makes vinyl chloride monomer (VCM, or chloroethene), used to produce one of the world’s most ubiquitous plastics, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). More than three decades later, Hut...

A Conversation with Manu Prakash

S tanford bioengineer Manu Prakash specializes in frugal science: engineering cheap, easy-to-use diagnostic tools for the developing world, especially remote areas where bulky, electric-powered lab equipment is impractical. In 2014, Prakash debuted the Foldscopea foldable paper microscope designed to detect blood-borne pathogensas well as a chemistry kit-on-a-chip to carry out diagnostic assa...