Made in Fiskars

Machine-Made Puzzles and Hand-Made Puzzles

Originally puzzles were not for recreation, but serious questions you might be killed if you couldn’t solve them. But in modern times, puzzles had become a sort of recreation, decreasing the seriousness and religiousness gradually. Now, the ‘rule creators’ of puzzles began to attract notice. I, as a rule creator, published a book, Kyoto University Student, Higashida’s Puzzles. I’ll show several...

Made in translation.

The dominance of proteins over nucleic acids in biological receptors and catalysts is generally explained by the presence of 20 amino acids as compared to the four bases found in DNA and RNA. But what if the chemical diversity of nucleic acids was increased through the addition of large numbers of protein-like side chains? Would the synthesis of highly functionalized DNA libraries enable the ev...

Made in Manchester.

'What Manchester thinks today, London thinks tomorrow' (19th century saying) This issue is dedicated to Manchester and its celebration of 60 years of academic occupational medicine. As a Mancunian myself I am particularly proud to be writing this editorial and introducing you to a special issue that has seen the people of Manchester respond to another challenge. Whether it is industry, art, mus...

Made in Estonia

Walter Zapp was born on 4th September 1905 in Riga. In the 1920s, when he was already living in Estonia, Walter Zapp became fascinated with the idea of developing a small precision camera that would produce pictures with no lesser quality than the considerably bigger cameras. A decade later, in 1936 the first Minox camera prototype was ready. Unfortunately, no producer in Estonia was interested...

Made in Southworks