Pied Piper of Neuroscience

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer once claimed for the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin a preeminent position among legends that have been influential in both folklore and literature.1 Even those who question Zuckmayer's view might find good grounds for reviewing the legend's history in folkloric and literary tradition. In 1984 the town of Hameln (Hamelin) in Germany celebrated the seven hu...

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer once claimed for the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin a preeminent position among legends that have been influential in both folklore and literature.1 Even those who question Zuckmayer's view might find good grounds for reviewing the legend's history in folkloric and literary tradition. In 1984 the town of Hameln (Hamelin) in Germany celebrated the seven hu...

Pied Piper of Neuroscience LiqunLuoPrinciples of Neurobiology2015Garland ScienceNew York, NY, USA645 pp. $100.00

Forgive us for not disclosing the year, but when one of us was excited about the brain at a young age (and the other just born), neuroscience as an integrated discipline was still so new that one could hardly find a textbook. Neuroscience was then scattered in the standard medical curriculum of anatomy, embryology, histology, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, pathology, neurology, and psy...

Abortion and the Pied Piper of compromise.

IFRS monopoly: the Pied Piper of financial reporting

The links among better financial reporting, better markets, and better economy and society are arguable, but they remain poorly understood. The addition of IFRS to the set of available alternatives may improve these linkages, but granting them monopoly status does not. Claims that the universal adoption of IFRS as a single set of high-quality principles-based standards will yield global compara...