Japan finally says yes to Star Wars proposals

The Star Wars Scroll Illusion

The Star Wars Scroll Illusion is a dynamic version of the Leaning Tower Illusion. When two copies of a Star-Wars-like scrolling text are placed side by side (with separate vanishing points), the two scrolls appear to head in different directions even though they are physically parallel in the picture plane. Variations of the illusion are shown with one vanishing point, as well as from an invert...

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After the asthmas: Star Wars and Star Trek.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (1958, Derby, UK in fact), Harry Morrow-Brown used his microscope from his medical school days to show that only those adults with airway disease and sputum eosinophilia responded to oral prednisolone [1], thus preventing this most powerful of medications being consigned to the asthma dustbin of history. Subsequent work led to steroid therapy moving fro...

Star Wars : the Price of All

Executive Committee Members ........................................................ 2 Star Wars: The Price of All that Money by Peter J. Gollon ................................ 3 Star Wars: Successor to MAD by Paul Craig •....................................•....•• 4 Estimating Vulnerability to EMP Effects by John H. Richardson ....................•...... 5 EMP From High-Altitude Nuclear Explo...

The erbium laser: the "Star Wars" of dentistry.

Dentistry has a new weapon in the fight against tooth decay. This ‘light saber’ of dentistry is the erbium laser. The dental laser is the latest modern innovation for the 21st Century. Erbium lasers have proven safe and effective for the removal of tooth decay and cavity preparation, in addition to many soft tissue and hard tissue surgical procedures. The FDA approved the erbium laser for marke...