Rhubarb pie and science

Rhubarb: the wondrous drug

CLIFFORD M. FOUST, Rhubarb: the wondrous drug, Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. xxii, 371, illus., £27.50 (0-691-08747-4) Children in Russia during the 1960s were fully aware of the existence of rhubarb which, together with castor oil, was one of the staple home medicines. Attitudes varied according to the method of administration. The lucky ones consumed it as compotes and kissels, others...

Perceptions of Pie - Expanders and Pie - Slicers in Negotiations

Inspired by Kelley and Stahelski (1970), we examined selfand peer-evaluations of negotiator behavior and how they related to actual performance. People had more accurate perceptions of their pie-slicing skills than their pie-expanding skills. Pieexpanders tended to see others as more competitive in general than did pie-slicers. Meanwhile, pie-slicers out-performed pie-expanders. Further, those ...

Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC.

Pie Chart Sonification

Different acoustic variables such as pitch, volume, timbre and position can be used to represent quantitative, qualitative and categorical aspects of the information. Such sonifications are particularly useful for those with visual impairments; they are also beneficial in circumstances where visual representations would be impossible to use or to enrich a graphical realization. We demonstrate m...

Portioning up PIE-1

S neuroprotects The neuronal guardian protein, Wld S , like a true superhero, gained its powers by chance mutation. Now, thanks to two studies, we are closer to understanding how Wld S exerts its protective force. The slow Wallerian degeneration (Wld S) protein and its neuroprotective powers came to exist thanks to a spontaneous mutation that fused the genes for Nmnat1 (a NAD + synthesizing enz...