That Monster Sea

A Monster Resembling a Mermaid (Sea-Nymph)

Sir,?On 6th October morning, I was called upon to see an infant bom at 9 a.m. the same day. The infant's body was normal down to the pelvis; but both the lower extremities from the hip joint down to the feet -were joined. There was no big joint visible below the pelvis. This whole structure was slightly bent with concavity at its dorsum. All the ten toes ^ere normal and presented the appearance...

Phylogenetics links monster larva to deep-sea shrimp

Mid-water plankton collections commonly include bizarre and mysterious developmental stages that differ conspicuously from their adult counterparts in morphology and habitat. Unaware of the existence of planktonic larval stages, early zoologists often misidentified these unique morphologies as independent adult lineages. Many such mistakes have since been corrected by collecting larvae, raising...

Monster Roots

Monster Analogies

tion. Over the centuries, it has become reified in that analogical reasoning has sometimes been regarded as a fundamental cognitive process. In addition, it has become identified with a particular expressive format. The limitations of the modern view are illustrated by monster analogies, which show that analogy need not be regarded as something having a single form, format, or semantics. Analog...

The “monster” Study

The diagnosogenic (semantogenic) theory for the onset of stuttering was initially proposed by Wendell Johnson in the early 1940s. It suggested that calling attention to a child’s normal hesitations (repetitions) could precipitate stuttering (Bloodstein, 1987). Some of the evidence that Johnson used to support this theory (e.g., certain tribes of American Indians, in which there appeared to be n...