The Congressman, His Work as He Sees It.

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F rom the multitude of proteins with bound prosthetic groups, metal clusters, or cofactors, the soluble c-type cytochromes were among the first to be characterized, probably because of their spectral visibility and unusual stability. The pathway for their biosyntheses, nevertheless, remains to be filled in as do the mechanistic details of holoprotein formation. Historically, many assumed, perha...

The Doctor and His Work

n + ~ U T)^ ~ T By Charles J. Whitby, M.D. Cantab. Pp. 235. London : Stephen Swift & Co. Ltd. 1912. Price, 3s. 6d. net. Dr. Whitby gives us, in this readable little book, what may be styled his thoughts on the medical profession. He discusses the positions of physicians, surgeons, specialists, lady doctors, pharmacists, etc., in the ranks of medicine, and inclines to honour the general practiti...

Leonhard Euler His Life, The Man, and His Work

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Euler’s birth (on April 15), an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, a sele...

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Hearing Faces: How the Infant Brain Matches the Face It Sees with the Speech It Hears

Speech is not a purely auditory signal. From around 2 months of age, infants are able to correctly match the vowel they hear with the appropriate articulating face. However, there is no behavioral evidence of integrated audiovisual perception until 4 months of age, at the earliest, when an illusory percept can be created by the fusion of the auditory stimulus and of the facial cues (McGurk effe...