Shack Poem

Life: A Poem

A critical care holiday poem.

Autophagy: research topic, painting, poem, dance

E ffective teachers do no simply present information for students to learn by rote for a good grade. Rather, they provide an environment in which students can engage with course material and both learn and interpret it for their own interest and goals. With this in mind, I have spent a considerable amount of time developing an active learning format for my introductory biology course, including...

Principles of Hartmann-Shack aberrometry.

RAY OPTICS DESCRIPTION Nearly 400 years ago, the celebrated Jesuit philosopher-astronomer, Christopher Scheiner, professor at the University of Ingolstadt, demonstrated the focusing ability of the human eye using a simple device known as the Scheiner Disk.1 Scheiner's experiments showed that if an optically imperfect eye views through an opaque disk perforated with two pinholes, a single distan...

Avicenna's Medical Didactic Poem: Urjuzehtebbi.

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...