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Hommage to reactive psychosis.

When looking back in the history of psychiatry, the concept of reactivity had very variable impact on ethiological considerations. If classification of mental disorders is taken as a proxy, it seems that this impact is presently at the lowest that it has been in the last hundred years. The author gives a short historical overview of concept of reactive psychosis, followed by a description of th...

Napoleon Polygons

An n-gon is called Napoleon if the centers of the regular ngons erected outwardly on its sides are vertices of a regular n-gon. In this note we obtain a new geometric characterization of Napoleon ngons and give a new proof of the well-known theorem of Barlotti Greber ([1], [3]) that an n-gon is Napoleon if and only if it is affine regular. Moreover, we generalize this theorem by obtaining an an...

Napoleon Is in Equilibrium.

It has been said that the cell is the test tube of the twenty-first century. If so, the theoretical tools needed to quantitatively and predictively describe what goes on in such test tubes lag sorely behind the stunning experimental advances in biology seen in the decades since the molecular biology revolution began. Perhaps surprisingly, one of the theoretical tools that has been used with gre...

Profile of Napoleon A. Chagnon.

Nearly 20 years after leaving the Amazon for the last time, Napoleon Chagnon is retracing his first steps into the jungle. The University of Missouri anthropologist and sociobiologist is archiving and documenting three decades of fieldwork in the Amazonian rainforest for deposition in a University of Michigan data center. Preparing his notes and transcribing more than 250 hours of tape recordin...