SATYAJIT, HIS FAMILY AND RABINDRANATH: AN ENDURING RELATION

Nicolò Massa, his family and his fortune.

THE VARIED interests of the Venetian physician Nicolo Massa (d. 1569) found expression in a range of publications on subjects which included anatomy, syphilis, plague and other pestilential fevers, venesection, and logic. Successful as a writer, he was also renowned as a practitioner and as a teacher, though he never held a university chair. He combined a shrewd common sense and an eye to busin...

Mr. Fairweather and His Family

Margaret Kornitzer. The Bodley Head. 9s. 6d. Margaret Gill's delightful illustrations make this a pleasant book to hand to any young child. The pictures convey the spirit of the text which describes an ordinary couple and the way they adopted two children to complete their family. Even the social worker is shown in a sympathetic light and the subject of adoption is treated without sentimentalit...

The family doctor, his life and history

and science fulfil similar functions". As he says, "The human brain needs to have a representation of the world that is unified and coherent." In his discussion of evolution Jacob is an out-and-out Darwinian, but gives a good analysis of the problems raised by molecular biology. He contrasts the selectionist Darwinian model with the instructionist theories of creationists. As an immunologist, h...

The handicapped child and his family.

Visual Routines and Attention by Satyajit Rao

The human visual system solves an amazing range of problems in the course of everyday activities. Without conscious effort, the human visual system finds a place on the table to put down a cup, selects the shortest checkout queue in a grocery store, looks for moving vehicles before we cross a road, and checks to see if the stoplight has turned green. Inspired by the human visual system, I have ...