Humphrey Milne-Redhead 1906–1974

Mr. Douglas Mearns Milne

Truth and Provability— A Comment on Redhead

Michael Redhead’s recent argument aiming to show that humanly certifiable truth outruns provability is critically evaluated. It is argued that the argument is at odds with logical facts and fails. Michael Redhead puts forward, in his ambitious paper ‘Mathematics and the Mind’ (Redhead [2004]), a simple argument which aims to show that humanly certifiable truth outruns provability. Redhead’s arg...

Effects of Redhead Nest Parasitism on Mallards

The pigmented life of a redhead.

As a redhead I have had a personal interest in red hair, freckles and sunburns since childhood. An observation of a formaldehyde-induced fluorescence in human epidermal melanocytes initiated my scientific interest in these cells. Prota and Nicolaus demonstrated that oxidation products of cysteinyldopas are the main components of pheomelanin. Our identification of 5-S-cysteinyldopa as the source...

Reply to Dickinson and Milne.

Nicolaas A. Puts, Ericka L. Wodka, Mark Tommerdahl, Stewart H. Mostofsky, and Richard A. Edden Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; F.M. Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; Laboratory for Neurocognitive and Imaging Research, Kennedy Krieger ...