Monument to Prof. Gross.

Monument to the discoveries.

A week ago I was standing with my wife by the River Tagus in Lisbon, next to the Monument to the Discoveries. The monument is at the spot where Vasco da Gama set out to discover the southeast passage from Europe to Asia, past the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco’s discovery marked the beginning of the Portuguese maritime empire. At the furthest tip of Europe, Portugal was perfectly situated to found su...

Prof-in-a-Box: using internet-videoconferencing to assist students in the gross anatomy laboratory

BACKGROUND The optimal learning environment for gross anatomy is the dissection laboratory. The Prof-in-a-Box (PiB) system has been developed where an anatomist using distance-learning technologies 'helps' students in a dissection laboratory at a different site. METHODS The PiB system consists of: (1) an anatomist in his/her office with a computer and video camera; (2) a computer and 2 video ...

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Answer to Prof. Störmer's Remark.

1 For references to the work of Friedman, LeMaitre, Robertson, Tolman, Eddington and de Sitter in this field, see Tolman, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 16, 582 (1930). 2 Stern, Zeits. Electrochem., 31, 448 (1925); Trans. Faraday Soc., 21, 477 (1925-26). 8 Tolman, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 12, 670 (1926). 4Tolman, Phys. Rev., 35, 904 (1930). Tolman, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 14, 353 (1928). 6 Tolman, Ibid., ...

Prof. Osler Goes to Oxford